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Henry McNeal Turner was born in 1834 in Newberry, South Carolina, and grew up in Abbeville, South Carolina. He was a missionary pioneer to South Africa, a liberation theologian, a social and political activist, and the first Black United States military chaplain. He was consecrated the twelfth bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1880.
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Newberry, South Carolina · United States
