The Story of My Life

Record summary

Samuel Ajayi Crowther’s posthumously published autobiography and associated mission materials describe his enslavement, conversion, Christian vocation, and religious experiences in nineteenth-century West Africa. It is relevant to comparison because visions, providential interpretation, dreams, and conversion can be examined within an African Christian life narrative rather than only through European observers. The publication is edited and shaped by missionary institutions. Researchers must establish which passages are Crowther’s own words, editorial reconstruction, or later biographical framing.