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Gowan Pamphlet
1748–1807
United States
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Gowan Pamphlet (1748–1807) was an American Baptist minister and freedman who founded the Black Baptist Church (now known as First Baptist Church) in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. He was one of the first and, for a time, the only ordained African American preacher of any denomination in the American Colonies.
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