Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Thomas Burchell (1799–1846) was a leading Baptist missionary and slavery abolitionist in Jamaica in the early nineteenth century. Many Jamaican parents name their children 'Burchell' in his honor; it is almost as popular a given or Christian name as Manley.Burchell, along with James Phillippo (1798–1879), William Knibb and Samuel Oughton, was one of the group of early Baptist missionaries sent from England to respond to requests from pioneer African Baptists for support in establishing chapels and education in Jamaica. The pioneers were freedmen who were leading evangelization and teaching in the island. They were representatives of the Baptist Missionary Society of London. The island Baptists followed the pioneering preaching of the African-American George Lisle, a Black Loyalist who resettled in Jamaica after the American Revolutionary War."@en }
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- Thomas_Burchell abstract "Thomas Burchell (1799–1846) was a leading Baptist missionary and slavery abolitionist in Jamaica in the early nineteenth century. Many Jamaican parents name their children 'Burchell' in his honor; it is almost as popular a given or Christian name as Manley.Burchell, along with James Phillippo (1798–1879), William Knibb and Samuel Oughton, was one of the group of early Baptist missionaries sent from England to respond to requests from pioneer African Baptists for support in establishing chapels and education in Jamaica. The pioneers were freedmen who were leading evangelization and teaching in the island. They were representatives of the Baptist Missionary Society of London. The island Baptists followed the pioneering preaching of the African-American George Lisle, a Black Loyalist who resettled in Jamaica after the American Revolutionary War.".