Author: Mrs. Anna M. SCOTTPublisher:
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Day Dawn in Africa, Or, Progress of the Prot. Epis. Mission at Cape Palmas, West Africa
Author: Mrs. Anna M. SCOTTPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Day Dawn in Africa
Author: Anna M. ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
By the Rivers of Water
Author: Erskine ClarkePublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465037690
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
In early November 1834, an aristocratic young couple from Savannah and South Carolina sailed from New York and began a strange seventeen year odyssey in West Africa. Leighton and Jane Wilson sailed along what was for them an exotic coastline, visited cities and villages, and sometimes ventured up great rivers and followed ancient paths. Along the way they encountered not only many diverse landscapes, peoples, and cultures, but also many individuals on their own odysseys -- including Paul Sansay, a former slave from Savannah; Mworeh Mah, a brilliant Grebo leader, and his beautiful daughter, Mary Clealand, at Cape Palmas; and King Glass and the wise and humorous Toko in Gabon. Leighton and Jane Wilson had freed their inherited slaves, and were to become the most influential American missionaries in West Africa during the first half of the nineteenth century. While Jane established schools, Leighton fought the international slave trade and the imperialism of colonization. He translated portions of the Bible into Grebo and Mpongwe and thereby helped to lay the foundation for the emergence of an indigenous African Christianity. The Wilsons returned to New York because of ill health, but their odyssey was not over. Living in the booming American metropolis, the Wilsons welcomed into their handsome home visitors from around the world as they worked for the rapidly expanding Protestant mission movement. As the Civil War approached, however, they heard the siren voice of their Southern homeland calling from deep within their memories. They sought to resist its seductions, but the call became more insistent and, finally, irresistible. In spite of their years of fighting slavery, they gave themselves to a history and a people committed to maintaining slavery and its deep oppression -- both an act of deep love for a place and people, and the desertion of a moral vision. A sweeping transatlantic story of good intentions and bitter consequences, By the Rivers of Water reveals two distant worlds linked by deep faiths.
The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home
Author: Daniel H BaysPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817356401
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This collection of 15 essays provides a fully developed account of the domestic significance of foreign missions from the 19th century through the Vietnam War. U.S. and Canadian missions to China, South America, Africa, and the Middle East have, it shows, transformed the identity and purposes of their mother countries in important ways.
Alexander Crummell
Author: Wilson Jeremiah MosesPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195050967
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Based on much new information, this biography examines the life and times of one of the most prominent African-American intellectuals of the nineteenth century. Crummell, educated at Queen's College, Cambridge, lived for almost twenty years in the Republic of Liberia as an Episcopal missionary, then accepted a pastorate in Washington, D.C., and founded the American Negro Academy, influencing W.E.B. Du Bois and future progenitors of the Garvey movement. A pivotal nineteenth-century thinker, Crummell is essential to any understanding of twentieth-century black nationalism.
An Index of the Grey Collection in the South African Public Library
Author: South African Public Library. Grey CollectionPublisher:
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Category : Grey, George, Sir, 1812-1898 --library --catalogues
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
This Far By Faith
Author: Judith WeisenfeldPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136663584
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This Far By Faith brings together a collection of essays on the religious identities and experiences of African-American women. Spanning from the period of slavery to the present, the essays profile American figures such as Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and Willie Mae Ford Smith, exploring the role that religious institutions and impulses played in their lives.
An Index of the Grey Collection
Author: South African Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)