to come together in close array; converge: The enemy was closing up on us from both flanks. 1  to bring to an end; cease: The company is closing up its overseas operations. 2  to become silent or uncommunicative. 3  to reduce or eliminate spacing material between (units of set type).
Resource Bank Contents. George Liele was the first black Baptist in Georgia, and the first black Baptist churches in American resulted from his evangelism.Liele was born in Virginia in 1752, but lived much of his life as a slave in Georgia.
notable works. Henry George, (born Sept. 2, 1839, Philadelphiaâdied Oct. 29, 1897, New York City), land reformer and economist who in Progress and Poverty (1879) proposed the single tax: that the state tax away all economic rentâthe income from the use of the bare land, but not from improvementsâand abolish all other taxes.