Zion Freetown 230

A virtual 'One Journey' symposium held September 30-October 1, 2022 was the third in a series and featured speakers in Jamaica, Canada, United States, and Freetown West Africa. This symposium highlig…

A virtual 'One Journey' symposium held September 30-October 1, 2022 was the third in a series and featured speakers in Jamaica, Canada, United States, and Freetown West Africa. This symposium highlig…

A virtual 'One Journey' symposium held September 30-October 1, 2022 was the third in a series and featured speakers in Jamaica, Canada, United States, and Freetown West Africa. This symposium highlig…

A virtual 'One Journey' symposium held on March 10, 2022 was the first in a series and featured speakers in Sierra Leone, Maryland, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Nova Scotia and other locations. They pre…

Freetown's Cotton Tree was the south-west demarcation of the city when its earliest plans were drawn up. It stood at the junction of trails, one of which led to Pademba’s Village, where the town’s ch…

Joyful, thankful, humble, generous. These words describe the service and sacrifice modeled by church members and leaders echoing the history we've explored on this journey from the past through 1792,…

Halifax (Kjipuktuk) is located in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship” which Mi’kmaq Wəlastəkwiyik…

Portrait of early black settler Rev. Anthony Elliott, and the genealogy project.

Narrated by Akindele T. M Decker; Family genealogy from Adrian Q. Labor (African Curator); created by Barbara Morgan.

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Gateway to a 230 year old West African city.

From the early years of meetings at the Wilson compound, to the current location built on land willed to the church by Mary Ash, a 1792 settler who worked as a washer woman, we learn about the lastin…

The life of Anne and David before 1783 was one of enslavement on the Edmonium Tobacco Plantations in Fauquier County Virginia. They were descendants of Africans acquired from slave ships arriving in …

In the closing decades of the eighteenth century, the convergence of various streams of transatlantic migration on Sierra Leone resulted in the intermixing of people with different life experiences o…

Presenter Natacha Leopold introduces us to a group of family members that got together to try and identify as many people as possible in an old photograph; a key element in filling in some of the gap…

Our story begins with a look at the early founders, congregation and community, and an introduction to members of the ZionFreetown@230 team, family genealogists Akindele T.M. Decker and Adrian Q. Lab…

Zion Methodist Church Wilberforce Street was established in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1792 and celebrates over two centuries of faith, fortitude, freedom and fellowship. Series begins January 2022.

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