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
- Access
- Full view