no doubt, some others contributed.

It is not quite clear, however, why William Crane, still representing
the Richmond African Baptist Missionary Society in the Convention and
the Rev. James B. Taylor, a delegate from Virginia and later the
biographer of Lott Cary, did not challenge the statement that so
little had been accomplished during the eight years of the existence
of the African mission.

The Convention then adopted the following recommendation of the
Committee:

_Resolved_, That this convention cherish a grateful recollection
of the self-denying labors of our late lamented missionary to
Africa, Rev. Lott Cary, and that we sympathize with his family,
the American Colonization Society, and the church at Monrovia, in
the loss they have sustained in his death.

_Resolved_, That it be recommended to the Board to take measures
for supplying the vacancy occasioned by the death of Bro. Cary as
soon as possible by an able white missionary, and that they
endeavor to the utmost of their power to promote the success of
this mission, as one in which the convention feel a special
interest.

S. CORNELIUS, Chairman.

It was not until 1832 that the Convention saw the error of its
conclusion and declared that it must depend "principally on _colored
persons_, as missionaries and school teachers, in Africa."[196]
Despite this color-phobia of the Baptists, nothing can explain away
the fact that Lott Cary had lived helpfully and died honorably.
Gurley[197] and Hervey[198] would make him a man of genius who, had he
possessed educational advantages, would have won a worldwide
reputation as preacher, as general or as chief magistrate. This
square-faced, keen-eyed, reserved, cautious black held nothing back.
From Charles City County to Richmond, from slave to freedman, from
profligate to prophet, from sinner to saint, is a record that might
have gone unnoticed; but from America to Africa, from governed to
governor, from missionary to martyr is Lott Cary.

For over a score of years the little village of Carytown was the only
memento of the man. But in 1850, the Rev. Eli Ball, an agent of the
Southern Baptist Convention, while visiting all the Liberian Baptist
Mission stations, found with difficulty the final resting place of
Lott Cary. The next year a marble monument was sent out and placed
over his grave.[199]