Background
Baptist was born in Ireland sometime in the second quarter of the 18th century.
Baptist was born in Ireland sometime in the second quarter of the 18th century.
She was part of the estimated 1,000-3,000 black people living in the country at the time. She was by profession a singer, and "enjoyed a successful career the length and breadth of the island from at least 1750 to the mid 1770"s, appearing at venues from Cork and Brandon to Belfast.".
