Agnes Foster​
A founder of the Jamaican Salvation Army (1887) who spent 30 years as a farmer’s wife in East Yorkshire.
Reverend Cragg Haynes
One of the earliest formally trained Black clergymen in England and probably the first in Yorkshire.
Reverend John Henry Hector
African American who preached to audiences on both sides of the Atlantic at the turn of the century.
Salim C. Wilson
African Prince enslaved by Arabs who converted to Christianity and settled in Scunthorpe.​
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