'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
Date(s) of creation: May 2002
Level: Item
Format: Archive           

Order number: MMSL MSS 044
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