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Alexander Worthy Clerk (4 March 1820 – 11 February 1906) was a Jamaican Moravian pioneer missionary, teacher and clergyman who arrived in 1843 in the Danish Protectorate of Christiansborg, now Osu in Accra, Ghana, then known as the Gold Coast. He was part of the first group of 24 West Indian missionaries from Jamaica and Antigua who worked under the aegis of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society of Switzerland. Caribbean missionary activity in Africa fit into the broader "Atlantic Missionary Movement" of the diaspora between the 1780s and the 1920s. Shortly after his arrival in Ghana, the mission appointed Clerk as the first Deacon of the Christ Presbyterian Church, Akropong, founded by the first Basel missionary survivor on the Gold Coast, Andreas Riis in 1835, as the organisation's fi

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  • Alexander Worthy Clerk (4 March 1820 – 11 February 1906) was a Jamaican Moravian pioneer missionary, teacher and clergyman who arrived in 1843 in the Danish Protectorate of Christiansborg, now Osu in Accra, Ghana, then known as the Gold Coast. He was part of the first group of 24 West Indian missionaries from Jamaica and Antigua who worked under the aegis of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society of Switzerland. Caribbean missionary activity in Africa fit into the broader "Atlantic Missionary Movement" of the diaspora between the 1780s and the 1920s. Shortly after his arrival in Ghana, the mission appointed Clerk as the first Deacon of the Christ Presbyterian Church, Akropong, founded by the first Basel missionary survivor on the Gold Coast, Andreas Riis in 1835, as the organisation's fi (en)
  • Alexander Worthy Clerk (4 de marzo de 1820​​​ –11 de febrero de 1906​​​) fue un misionero, maestro y clérigo jamaiquino de Moravia que llegó en 1843 al protectorado danés de Christiansborg, hoy en día en Acra, Ghana, entonces conocida como la Costa de Oro.​​​ Formó parte del primer grupo de 24 misioneros antillanos de Jamaica y Antigua que trabajaron bajo los auspicios de la .​​​ La actividad misionera caribeña en África encaja en el «Movimiento Misionero Atlántico» más amplio de la diáspora entre los años 1780 y 1920.​​​ Poco después de su llegada a Ghana, la misión nombró a Clerk como el primer diácono de la , fundada por el primer misionero sobreviviente de Basilea en la Costa de Oro, , en 1835, como la primera iglesia protestante de la organización en el país.​ Clerk es ampliamente re (es)
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