Thomas Birch Freeman: the Methodist missionary who built Cape Coast’s first chapel and went to Kumasi
Thomas Birch Freeman, born in England in 1809 to an African father and an English mother, arrived on the Gold Coast in January 1838 as a…
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The first Methodist missionary to the Gold Coast died within six months. Thomas Birch Freeman stayed for more than fifty years
Methodism reached the Gold Coast in January 1835, when Joseph Dunwell landed at Cape Coast. He died that June. Thomas Birch Freeman, who arrived in 1838,…