Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein (c. 1717 – ...
wikipedia - 29 Oct 2022Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein (c. 1717 – 1 February 1747) was a Ghanaian writer, poet, minister, and missionary best known for being the first person of African descent to be ordained as a minister in an established Protestant church. Born in Western Africa, Capitein was taken to the Dutch Republic at a young age, where he studied theology and wrote on Christianity and slavery before returning to West Africa and eventually dying in debt.
