Author:

Short, Wallace V  Search this

Subject:

Sheppard, William H (William Henry) 1865-1927  Search this

Physical description:

xxi, 544 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 28 cm

Type:

Biography

Place:

Africa, Central

Date:

2006

19th century

Notes:

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Howard University, 2006.

Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 2006. 23 cm. s2006 miun r

Contents:

Rev. William Henry Sheppard a pioneer African-American Presbyterian missionary to the Congo Free State, 1865-1927 -- A history of Augusta County in black and white and William Sheppard's origins, 1764-1880 -- Race and the southern American Presbyterian tradition: a history of the Lexington Synod, the PCCUS, and PCUS, 1725-1900 -- The education, journey, and quest of William Henry Sheppard, 1880-1890: southern preparation for missions in Africa -- Christianization, exploration, and colonization: Christian missions in Central Africa, the people of Kasai, and the creation of the Congo Free State, 1870-1891 -- Presbyterian missionaries in the Congo: Sheppard and Lapsley sojourn to the Kasai, 1890-1897 -- The APCM during the Morrison-Sheppard era: mission growth, challenges, and racial conflict, 1897-1910 -- International opposition to the Congo Free State's heart of darkness, 1890-1905 -- State-sponsored terrorism in the Sankuru River basin, Sheppard's Pianga Massacre report and the formation of the Congo Reform Movement, 1895-1904 -- The Congo Reform pioneers in England and Belgium: Foxbourne, Casement, and Morel, 1895-1903 -- The post-Kasai years of William Sheppard, 1910-1927

Topic:

African American missionaries  Search this

Presbyterian Church--Missions--History  Search this

African Americans--Relations with Africans--Religious aspects--History  Search this

Black people in missionary work--History  Search this

Religion  Search this

History  Search this

Call number:

BV3625.C63 S543 2006a

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_923932