The most well-known example of Christian conversion among the Africans released at Freetown was Samuel Ajayi Crowther. He was born in around 1806 in Oshogun, in the district of Ibarapa in Oyo. He was captured in 1821, shipped as a slave from Lagos and subsequently convoyed to Freetown following the ship's interception by an anti-slavery patrol in 1822. In his narrative written in 1837, Crowther recorded that after six months spent 'under the care of the Church Missionary Society' at Bathurst, he was 'able to read the New Testament with some degree of freedom; and was made a Monitor'. In this account, written almost 30 years before his consecration as the first African Anglican bishop, he explained how 'The Lord was pleased to open my heart, to hearken to those things which were spoken by His servants; and being convinced that I was a sinner, and desired to obtain pardon through Jesus Christ, I was baptized on the 11th of December, 1825, by the Rev. J. Raban'. He expressed the hope 'That the time may come when the Heathen shall be fully given to Christ for His inheritance [...]'. His subsequent preaching in Badagry and Abeokuta in 1845 and 1846, in addition to his formation in 1857 of the Niger Mission with 'an all-African staff' all highlight his commitment to spreading the gospel (Curtin, 1967, p. 8, pp. 289-316; Ajayi, 1969, pp. 25-27; Hair, 1966, pp. 217-219). Joseph Wright, who worked as a missionary for the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, recorded in The Life of Joseph Wright, A Native of Ackoo in 1839 that he was sent to York and 'placed at school' where he 'came to know that high and glorious name of Jesus Christ the Saviour'. His attendance at the Methodist chapel later led him to go out 'among my friends, telling them that the Lord is good; inviting them to come and taste for themselves [...]'. Wright, who was of Egba Alake origin and born in Oba, recorded how he 'was born a Heathen in a Heathen Land