Letters and journal of Reverend Samuel Adjai Crowther : Missionary Papers, Manuscript, Correspondence 1844-1850
- Published:
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2012.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Additional Creators:
- Adam Matthew Digital (Firm)
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- Other Subject(s):
- West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba, Sierra Leone (item 1, 3, 5, 10, 15-20, 89, 90), Freetown, Abbeokuta, Abeokuta (2, 3, 5-14, 23-30, 32, 41, Lagos (16, 17, 22, 35, 42-48, 50, 52-54, 56, 62, 64-73, 75, 83), England, Plymouth (15), Fernando Po (33, 35, 38), Badagy (89, 90)
- Africa, Europe
- Reverend Samuel Adjai Crowther, Reverend H. Venn (items 1, 3, 5-11, 13, 14, 17, 20, 27, 28, 30, 39, 41, 43-48, 50, 52-54, 56, 62, 64-73, 75, 77, 83), G. C. Greenway (2), Reverend N. Knight (12, 15, 16, 18), Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1, 91, 113), Lord Palmerstone (18), Commander Forbes (16, 18), Sir T. D. Acland (23), Chief of Ijaye (24), Major Straith (81), Governor of Elmina (34), King Pepple of Bonny (35, 62), Dr W. B. Baikie (38, 39), King Kosoko of Lagos (80), Henry G. Lawson (49), Reverend J. Chapman (55), John M. D. Skene of HMS Philomel (57, 59), J. M. Hall (74), King of Yoruba (78), Commodore of West African squadron (80), Dr. W. H. I. Bleck (88), Reverend H. Townsend (88), King of Dahoney (16-18, 70, 78, 89), King of Benin (90)
- missionary papers, letters, journal, Church Missionary Society, CMS, missionary work, missionary journals, education, Yoruba Mission, evangelism (item 3), Fourah Bay College (1, 4), relations with African Chiefs (2), gifts, superstition (2, 78), sacrifice (2), desire to educate children (4, 5), marriage customs, polygamy (5, 8, 87, 95), growth of CMS in Africa, New Zealand and America (6), tribal customs, worship of ancestors, religion (6), clash of traditional and Christian religions (6), beating of converts, restriction of Christian practices (13), language, tribal dialects (7, 16, 30), tribal conflict (16, 32, 89), slavery (6), slave trade (13, 20, 54, 78, 89, 90-93), kidnapping (89, 90), abolition (13, 17, 18, 19, 23), impact of Sierra Leone immigrants (8), missionary holiday pay (14), health and disease (44, 89), voyage between Plymouth and Sierra Leone (16), colonial war (17), colonial conflict and diplomacy (18, 23), trade (19), cotton (23, 26, 52, 67, 68), Niger expedition (28, 39, 90), list of goods supplied for Niger and Tahadda expeditions (36), old CMS currency (53, 73), description of areas and tribes around Lagos, law, Yoruba including religion and judicial system (78), Islam, Mohammedanism(78, 91), pawning relatives (78), Catholic missions (89), contact with tribes and presents of rum and gun powder to Chiefs (89-91, 94, 96), fetish, witchcraft (91)
- Note:
- AMDigital Reference: CA2 031 (1-112).
- Original Version:
- Reproduction of: Letters and journal of Reverend Samuel Adjai Crowther 1844-1850.
- Location of Originals:
- University of Birmingham Library
- Copyright Note:
- University of Birmingham Library
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