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Tiyo Soga : a page of South African mission work
- Title
- Tiyo Soga : a page of South African mission work / by John A. Chalmers.
- Author
- Chalmers, John Aitken, 1837-1888
- Publication
- Edinburgh : Andrew Elliot ; London : Hodder & Stoughton ; Glasgow : David Bryce & Son ; Grahamstown, Cape Colony : James Kay, 1877.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 488 pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait; 20 cm.
- Summary
- Biography of the first black South African to be ordained and who also worked to translate the Bible.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Subjects
- Soga, Tiyo, 1829-1871
- Soga, Tiyo, 1829-1871 > Portraits
- Xhosa (African people)
- Missions > South Africa
- Presbyterian Church > Clergy
- Zulu (African people)
- Authors' autographs (Provenance)
- Presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
- Missionaries > South Africa > Biography
- Presbyterian Church > South Africa > Clergy > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Authors' autographs (Provenance)
- Presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
- Note
- With a half-title.
- "Printed by Aird and Coghill, Glasgow."--printer statement, verso of half-title page.
- Provenance (note)
- inscribed: in ink under the frontispiece portrait of Soga "Yours most sincerely Tiyo Soga." ; Inscribed: in ink on half-title page "To Mrs. A. Donald with Mr. Clark's compliments. Kirkfield. Bothwell. January 1878." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
- Contents
- The polygamist's village -- The Chumie -- Lovedale -- The war of the axe -- Tiyo's first visit to Scotland -- The war of Mlanjeni -- Tiyo's second visit to Scotland -- Tiyo's student life continued -- The cattle killing delusion -- Tiyo's return to South Africa -- Getting into harness : the Mgwali -- In harness -- Church building -- Bearing precious seed -- Dark shadows -- Glimpses of sunshine -- Missionary extension -- Literary labours -- His removal from the Mgwali -- In the dark places of the earth -- Characteristics -- Sunset.
- Call Number
- Sc B-Soga, T. (Chalmers, J. Tiyo Soga)
- OCLC
- 14190530
- NYPGR14190530-B
- Author
- Chalmers, John Aitken, 1837-1888, author.
- Title
- Tiyo Soga : a page of South African mission work / by John A. Chalmers.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh : Andrew Elliot ; London : Hodder & Stoughton ; Glasgow : David Bryce & Son ; Grahamstown, Cape Colony : James Kay, 1877.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Provenance
- Copy in Sc B-Soga, T. (accession no. B526288) inscribed: in ink under the frontispiece portrait of Soga "Yours most sincerely Tiyo Soga." ; Inscribed: in ink on half-title page "To Mrs. A. Donald with Mr. Clark's compliments. Kirkfield. Bothwell. January 1878." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Soya, Tigo, 1829-1871, inscriber.Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
- Research Call Number
- Sc B-Soga, T. (Chalmers, J. Tiyo Soga)