Talk:Daniel Coker

1780

Born^[1]

1800

Organized the Sharp Street Methodist Episcopal Church^[2]

1802

Bishop Francis Asbury ordained Coker as a deacon in the Methodist Episcopal Church^[3]

1805

Sits for portrait by Joshua Johnson^{[citation needed]}

1810

Published A Dialogue Between a Virginian and an African Minister^[1]

1815

December, Quaker businessman Paul Cuffe with his crew and 31 passengers sailed for Sierra Leone.^[4]

1816

African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church established.^[5]

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..."^[6]

1846

Died^[1]

• 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.

• Aaseng, Nathan (2003), "Coker, Daniel", African-American Religious Leaders: A-Z of African Americans, New York, NY: Infobase Publishing, p. 42,43 {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)

• 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

• Bruce, Dickson D., Jr. (2001). The Origins of African American Literature, 1680–1865. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia. p. 393. ISBN 0-8139-2066-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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

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

A Will to Choose traces the history of African-American Methodism beginning with their emergence in the fledgling American Methodist movement in the 1760s. Responding to Methodism's anti-slavery stance, African-Americans joined the new movement in large numbers and by the end of the eighteenth century, had made up the largest minority in the Methodist church, filling positions of authority as class leaders, exhorters, and preachers. Through the first half of the nineteenth century, African Americans used the resources of the church in their struggle for liberation from slavery and racism in the secular culture.

Source: Understanding Slavery