Freetown
Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone. It is a major port city on the Atlantic Ocean and is located in the Western Area of the country. Freetown is Sierra Leone's major urban, economic, financial, cultural, educational and p ...
, Sierra Leone, in 1792.
In 1804, she became the housekeeper of the Melchior Renner of
Württemberg
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Together with Baden and Hohenzollern, two other historical territories, Würt ...
, who was one of the first three missionaries sent to Africa and Freetown by the British Anglican
Church Mission Society
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(CMS) that same year. In 1808, she married Melchior Renner.
She managed the missionary Bashia School for girls in 1808–1818. She was the first female teacher and principal of a girls' school in the missionary in Africa. Her school had many students from the elite Euro-African families of the region. One of her students were
Elizabeth Frazer Skelton
Elizabeth Frazer Skelton also called "Mammy Skelton" (1800–1855) was a Euro-African slave trader.Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong, Dictionary of African Biography, Volym 1–6'
Life
She was the daughter of the slave trader John Frazer of Scotland (176 ...