Africa Papers, 1781-1958.

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Africa Papers, 1781-1958.

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Several items relate to church affairs, including letters of Samuel A. Crowther describing Christian missions in southern Nigeria and the havoc caused by slave traders, 1852; John Wilson mentioning disorders in South Africa; Joseph Williams describing missionary work in southern Tanganyika, 1882; Zakaria Kizito Kisingiri describing his mother's funeral in Uganda, 1912; John William Colenso, Bishop of Natal, noting the uncertainty of his career, 1864; and T. Durant Philip on missionary work in Cape Colony, 1849. Includes a picture of Paulus Moort, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Monrovia, Liberia. Other material includes a letter of N. Abcarius about a plot against the Mahdi of Sudan, 1885; the complaint of a minor official in Cairo against British inactivity in the Sudan, 1889; and two items pertaining to the visit of George V to Port Said, 1911. Includes a small volume of economic statistics on the Cape Colony, 1781-1803, 38 pp.; a letter of Arthur D. Cushing describing looting during the Boer War, 1901; engravings of two maps showing the course of the Nile and Niger rivers, 1821; and the typescript of an article by Cyril Sofer on race in South Africa, 1958.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Abcarius, N.

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Kisingiri, Zakaria Kizito.

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Wilson, John I.B.

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Resident of Canfield, Trumbull County, Ohio. From the description of Papers, 1833-1845. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 18727630 Milton (Caswell Co.), N.C. merchant. From the description of Papers and account book, 1835-1852. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 39390446 Frederick Co., Virginia resident. From the description of Papers, 1827-1901. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36050605 Jo...

Crowther, Samuel, 1806?-1891

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Rev. Samuel Crowther was Bishop of the Niger Territory and the first African to be ordained by the Church Missionary Society. From the description of Letters and portrait [manuscript]. 1887-1889. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225841413 ...

Sofer, Cyrill

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Philip, T. Durant.

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Williams, Joseph M.

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Moort, Paulus.

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Colenso, John William, 1814-1883

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John William Colenso, radical biblical critic and bishop in the Church of England, was born in Cornwall on January 24, 1814. Although mathematics was his first love, he was also taken with the study of religion and soon joined the ministry. Named Bishop of Natal in 1853, he went to Africa, where the natives' lives and questions prompted him to take a more radical view of the Bible. As a result of his revolutionary ideas, in 1863 he was excommunicated by Bishop Gray in Capetown. Although this jud...

Cushing, Arthur D.

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