'The World of Edward Bickersteth'
Privately published work on Edward Bickersteth and the WMMS mission in the Yoruba part of Nigeria in the mid C19th. Contains numerous illustration (mostly modern) as well as extracts from Bickersteth's journals and letters.
| Order number: |
MMSL MSS 044 |
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| Date(s) of creation: |
May 2002 |
| Level: |
Item |
| Format: | Archive |
| Order number: |
MMSL MSS 044 |
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| Summary: |
Privately published work on Edward Bickersteth and the WMMS mission in the Yoruba part of Nigeria in the mid C19th. Contains numerous illustration (mostly modern) as well as extracts from Bickersteth's journals and letters. |
| Admin history: | Edward Bickersteth (?1812-?1862), a liberated enslaved person originally a member of the Egba people of Western Nigeria but raised in Sierra Leone. Served as a 'native agent' (indigenous teacher and lay pastor) for the WMMS in and around Abeokuta, Nigeria, from 1849 until 1862. |
| Access status: |
Open |
| Copyright: | Copyright held by author |
| User restrictions: | No copying permitted |
| Language: | English |
| Format: | Archive |