[gaijin]

On November 22, 1822, Betsey Stockton, a young African American woman from New Haven, Connecticut, set sail with the second group of missionaries for the for a five-month voyage to Hawaii.

Ah, yes, thank you. SOMEONE BLACK went to Hawaii, how interesting.

[Hieronymus]

That Christianity does not belong to one race or nation is an important point to drive home—and driving it home in a concrete manner requires having people from different races and nations involved in evangelization. (spell check is telling me that at least one of English or spell check is evil—if evangelize is a properly spelt [spell check just went off again and Webster’s says that spell check can go to he!! on that one] word, I will stick with what makes sense to me).

[Perseverando]

Ah, yes, thank you. SOMEONE BLACK went to Hawaii, how interesting.

Yes, I think it is quite interesting considering it was 1822, she was a young single woman, and considering the status of BLACK people in general 200 years ago. And if you were to read a little more about her accomplishments:

"Commissioned by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Betsey Stockton was the first single American woman sent overseas as a missionary.

An edition of Betsey Stockton's Hawaiian diary was published in the Christian Advocate, 1824 and 1825, by Dr. Reverend Dr. Ashbel Green, President of Princeton University."