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English: The only known portrait of Rev. George Cosens, a Jamaican who in 1837 became the first known black West-Indian minister of any Church in Britain on his first pastorate of Cradley Heath Baptist Church. This version copied from a print among the documents at Cradley Heath Baptist Church.
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Source Archive of photos of Ministers of Cradley Heath Baptist Church
Author Unknown, the subject of the photo died in 1881 and original print made for public use at Cradley Heath Baptist Church

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