The life and letters of Philip Quaque, the first African Anglican missionary:

"This is the first edition of the correspondence of Philip Quaque, a prolific writer of African descent whose letters provide a unique perspective on the effects of the slave trade and its abolition in Africa." "Born around 1740 at Cape Coast, in what is now Ghana, Quaque was brought...

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Weitere Verfasser: Carretta, Vincent 1945- (HerausgeberIn), Reese, Ty M. (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Athens, Georgia University of Georgia Press [2010]
Schriftenreihe:Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
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Zusammenfassung:"This is the first edition of the correspondence of Philip Quaque, a prolific writer of African descent whose letters provide a unique perspective on the effects of the slave trade and its abolition in Africa." "Born around 1740 at Cape Coast, in what is now Ghana, Quaque was brought to England by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. In 1765 he became the first African ordained as an Anglican priest. He returned to Africa and served for fifty years as the society's missionary and also as chaplain to the Company of Merchants Trading to Africa (CMTA) at Cape Coast Castle, the principal slave-trading site of the CMTA." "Quaque sent more than fifty letters to London and North America reporting on his successes and failures, his relationships with European and African authorities, and his observations on the effects of the American and French revolutions in Africa. The regular references to his African mission in popular magazines made Quaque well known in the English-speaking world. Initially writing when the transatlantic slave trade went largely unquestioned, Quaque in his later letters traces the period of abolitionist fervor leading up to the ban in 1808." "Quaque's letters reveal his evolving opposition to both slavery and the slave trade and offer a fascinating perspective on transatlantic identity, missionary activity, precolonial European involvement in Africa, the early abolition movement, and Cape Coast society."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:xii, 219 Seiten Illustrationen, Karte 24 cm
ISBN:9780820343099
0820343099
9780820333199
0820333190