Turner Chapel - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Turner Chapel - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Turner Chapel was an African Methodist Episcopalian Church located at 37 Lakeshore Road West in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. It was established in 1891 by Samuel Adams and his brother-in-law Reverend William Butler. An earlier structure, built on the east side of Sixteen Mile Creek, had burned down. The west side of the river, where artisans lived, was a more welcoming environment for Oakville's "Black Church". The church was named after Bishop Henry McNeal Turner, an advocate of the back-to-Africa movement,Edwin S. Redkey, "Bishop Turner's African Dream", The Journal of American History, (September 1967), pp. 271-290, accessed 14 May 2012August Meier, Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915: Racial Ideologies in the Age of Booker T. Washington, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1963, pp. 59-68 and the first black chaplain, appointed by Abraham Lincoln, during the American Civil War.Smith, John David, African Soldiers in Blue: African Troops in the Civil War Era, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002, pp. 336-339 Read more on Wikipedia
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