(AFRICA) Carte de visite of four Black American missionaries

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(AFRICA.) Carte-de-visite of four Black American missionaries heading to Africa, including Thomas Lewis Johnson. Albumen photograph, 3 3/4 x 2 1/4 inches, on photographer's mount; minimal wear. London: J.F. Knights, circa 1877

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Thomas Lewis Johnson (1836-1921), shown at right, was born in to slavery in Virginia, bounced from New York to Chicago to Denver as a Baptist minister after the war, and then went to England with his wife Henrietta in 1876 to prepare for missionary work. He was in Africa from late 1878 to 1880, mostly at Bakundu in Cameroon, but returned to England after the death of his wife. He lectured widely and published "Twenty-Eight Years a Slave, or The Story of My Life in Three Continents." He is shown with Henrietta, her sister Isadora, and her husband Calvin Harris Richardson, all of whom accompanied him to Africa.