Talk:Daniel Coker

Tentative Outline
I. Lede

II. Early life
 * a. Mother white, father black.
 * b. White brother would not go to school without him.
 * c. Escaped from Baltimore to New York to acquire his freedom.
 * d. Francis Asbury

III. Travel to Africa
 * On the Elizabeth
 * Organized first foreign congregation of African Methodist Episcopal church while in transit across Atlantic

IV. Life in Africa

VI. Writings (Journal, Dialogue)

VII. References

VIII. See Also

IX. External Links

Chronology for Daniel Coker

 * 1780


 * Born


 * 1800


 * Organized the Sharp Street Methodist Episcopal Church


 * 1802


 * Bishop Francis Asbury ordained Coker as a deacon in the Methodist Episcopal Church


 * 1805


 * Sits for portrait by Joshua Johnson


 * 1810


 * Published A Dialogue Between a Virginian and an African Minister


 * 1815


 * December, Quaker businessman Paul Cuffe with his crew and 31 passengers sailed for Sierra Leone.


 * 1816


 * African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church established.


 * 1820


 * "The ship Elizabeth sailed from New York on the 6th of February, 1820, carrying out the Rev. Samuel Bacon, principal agent, and John P. Bankson, assistant agent, appointed by the president, with thirty effective labourers and mechanics, their wives and children, to be employed in this work. The special instructions delivered to Mr. Bacon, are not (end of page 48) now in the possession of your agent; but in pusuance of the instruction he received, he proceeded to Sierra Leone, and after obtaining an experienced pilot, and procuring all the information of the coast in his power, he determined to effect a temporary settlement in Sherbro....Daniel Coker, a coloured man, on the death of Mr. Bacon, had become invested with the agency for captured Africans, and had all the authority in his own hands..."


 * 1846


 * Died

Sources to help develop this article

 * Portrait of a Gentleman, 1805
 * African-American Religious Leaders: A-Z of African Americans, Daniel Coker, pp. 42,43


 * Henry Louis Gates, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (2004) African American Lives, (Google eBook). Oxford University Press, 1025 pages pp. 177, 178


 * Thomas, Rhondda R. (Fall, 2007). Exodus and colonization: charting the journey in the journals of Daniel Coker, a descendant of Africa. African American Review.




 * God Has Soul: Celebrating The Indomitable Spirit Of African Americans (Google eBook), Honor Books, Niral R. Burnett, David C Cook, 2004-12-30 - Religion - 192 pages


 * Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass, Volume 2, Paul Finkelman, Oxford University Press, 2006 - 543 pages


 * Encyclopedia of African American History, Volume 2, Leslie Alexander, Walter C. Rucker, ABC-CLIO, 2010-02-28 - 1231 pages


 * A Year With American Saints, G. Scott Cady, Christopher L. Webber, Church Publishing, Inc., 2006-11-30 - 758 pages


 * Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005 (Google eBook), James T. Campbell, Penguin, 2007-04-24 - 513 pages




 * Encyclopedia Encyclopedia of American Literature of the Sea and Great Lakes, Daniel Coker entry

1794-1850

 * 1794 Map




 * The Religious Intelligencer, Volume 5 (Google eBook), N. Whiting., 1820


 * A history of colonization on the western coast of Africa, (Google eBook), Archibald Alexander, W.S. Martien, 1846 - 603 pages
 * A history of colonization on the western coast of Africa, (Google eBook), Archibald Alexander, W.S. Martien, 1846 - 603 pages


 * Daniel Coker, Black Past.

The African Methodist Espiscopal church

 * A Will to Choose: The Origins of African American Methodism (Google eBook), J. Gordon Melton, Rowman & Littlefield, 2007-02-28 - 317 pages

Joshua Johnson's Portrait of a Gentleman, 1805, Sitter believed to be Daniel Coker
Source: Understanding Slavery