Reclaiming the women of Britain's first mission to West Africa : : three lives lost and found / / by Fiona Leach.

• VerfasserIn: Leach, Fiona E.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Hartwig, Sarah, d.1815.; Renner, Elizabeth, d. 1826.; Klein, Susanna, d. 1825.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Studies of Religion in Africa 47.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (468 pages).

Reclaiming the Women of Britain’s First Mission to Africa is the compelling story of three long-forgotten women, two white and one black, who lived, worked and died on the Church Missionary Society’s first overseas mission at the dawn of the nineteenth century. It was a time of momentous historical...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Copyright page
• Acknowledgements
• Illustrations
• Abbreviations
• A Note on Terminology and Orthography
• Dramatis Personae (1804–1826)
• Introduction
• Sarah
• English Pioneer
• New Jerusalem
• The Devil’s Poste Restante
• The Fall
• Divine Providence
• Elizabeth
• New Dawn
• Black Matriarch
• White Man’s Book
• Rio Pongas in Flames
• Brave New World
• Susanna
• Ties that Bind
• Whistleblower
• Choppy Waters
• The Great Survivor
• Epilogue
• Back Matter
• Bibliography
• Index.