about the third year of my liberation from the slavery of man, I was convinced of another worse state of slavery, namely, that of sin and Satan. It pleased the Lord to open my heart ... I was admitted into the visible Church of Christ here on earth as a soldier to fight manfully under his banner against our spiritual enemies (Walls, "A Second Narrative of Samuel Ajayi Crowther's Early Life," Bulletin of the Society for African History 2 (1965): 14.)
