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Ebenezer Davies
1808–1882
A Welsh-born Congregational minister, missionary, and travel writer, he turned firsthand experience into sharp, morally urgent books. His best-known work records a four-thousand-mile journey through the United States and offers a clear nineteenth-century Christian critique of slavery.
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About the author
Born in 1808 and later identified as a Congregational minister, Ebenezer Davies studied at Rotherham College and began his ministry at Tabernacle Chapel in Stockport. After that he accepted a call from the London Missionary Society and served at Mission Chapel in New Amsterdam, Berbice, in British Guiana.
Davies is best remembered as the author of American Scenes, and Christian Slavery (1849), a book drawn from his travels in the United States. Written in the voice of an observant outsider, it mixes travel writing, religious reflection, and abolitionist witness, making it valuable both as a personal narrative and as a record of how slavery appeared to a British Protestant visitor.
Reference sources also connect him with later ministry in London, where he served for many years, and note that his final years were spent in Southport. He died on February 3, 1882, at Bryniach near Ruthin, North Wales. Although a portrait appears to exist in library records, I could not confirm a direct fetchable image file from reliable sources during this search.