Following the visit of a Representative of the Society of Friends in 1821, a party of five persons including two Gambian Wollofs, arrived in The Gambia in 1823 with the two-fold aim of establishing a school for girls in Bathurst and a ploughing school outside Bathurst for boys.
The Wesleyan, now Methodist Mission, arrived in 1824 at the invitation of Sir Charles…
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