Indigenous Cultures and Christian Conversion in Ghana and Sierra Leone, 1700-1850 - Volumes
Volumes
2 volumes in Indigenous Cultures and Christian Conversion in Ghana and Sierra Leone, 1700-1850
Papers of Thomas Perronet Thompson relating to Sierra Leone
Born the son of a wealthy Hull banker, Thompson served in the army and navy until, partly through his connexion with William Wilberforce, the influential anti-slavery campaigner, he was appointed governor of the colony in Sierra Leone in 1808, the year following the abolition of the slave trade across the British Empire. However, Thompson's zeal in enforcing the new law appears to have contributed to the termination of this appointment. Read more →
Miscellaneous materials from the USPG archives
The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts first mission to West Africa began more than fifty years after its incorporation by royal charter during the reign of William III, with the arrival of the Reverend Thomas Thompson at James Fort on the Gambia river in January 1751/2. Continued from 1766 by the Reverend Philip Quaque, the first African to be ordained into the priesthood of the... Read more →
