Le Cordeur, Basil + Saunders, Christopher (Editors)

Missionary letters and journals, 1817 to 1848 from the Brenthurst Collection Johannesburg

This is the second title in the First Brenthurst Series. Standard edition limited to 850 copies.

1976. Hard cover with dust cover, 310 pages. Very good condition. Neat and clean. Tightly bound. Over 1kg.

In the early nineteenth century, during the period of slave emancipation, the Eastern Cape frontier was the scene of much turmoil and conflict. The London Missionary Society’s Reverend James Kitchingman (1792—1848) wrote journals and kept correspondence from some of the most prominent and controversial missionaries in southern Africa at the time. These papers reveal, among other things, insight into the church’s role in politics, and the petty in-fighting between missionary groups.