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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      29 August 2010
      25 February 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511695643
      9781108007948
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511695643
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.84kg, 668 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, African Studies, History, Religion, Church History, African History, Religion: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Religion
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, African Studies, History, Religion, Church History, African History, Religion: General Interest
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    Cambridge Library Collection - Religion
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    Robert Moffat, Scottish missionary and linguist, arrived in South Africa in 1817 under the aegis of the London Missionary Society. He pioneered missionary activity among the Tswana people and became deeply influential in South Africa, helping to open up the 'missionary road' north of the Cape and later criticising the Afrikaners and becoming an advocate of British imperial rule in the region. He was also the first transcriber of the Setswana language. Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa (1842) is an autobiographical account of Moffat's time as a missionary and contains, as he states in the preface, a 'faithful record of events which have occurred within the range of his experience and observation' that 'supplies much that may serve to illustrate the peculiar attributes of African society.' Missionary Labours was hugely popular with the Victorian readership and became a classic narrative of missionary activity in Africa.

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