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Cape Colony · Missionary observer

The Story of My Mission in South-Eastern Africa

William Shaw, 1872

Summary

William Shaw founded the Wesleyan missionary chain of stations across the eastern Cape frontier into Natal. Covering his work among Xhosa communities from the 1820s onward, this memoir is one of the most important missionary sources for Xhosa history and the eastern frontier conflicts of the early colonial period.

Topics

Xhosa, Missionaries, Wesleyan, Natal, Frontier, Methodist

Bibliographic Information

Author
William Shaw
Year
1872
Language(s)
English
Period
Cape Colony
Perspective
Missionary observer
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