Description
Book SynopsisAn exploration of how two missionaries in southern Africa and western Canada used their faith and ties to Britain to rearticulate the meaning of indigeneity.
Trade ReviewTolly Bradford is among very few historians to compare the spread of British colonization and mission Christianity in nineteenth-century North America and Southern Africa. This thoroughly researched and well-written book examines what it meant to be indigenous and Christian at a time of violent and exploitive European colonial conquest and portrays indigenous missionaries Henry Budd of western Canada and Tiyo Soga of the Eastern Cape as active agents with minds of their own. -- Timothy J. Stapleton, Professor of History, Trent University
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction: Indigenous Missionaries, Identity, and the Colonial Frontier
Part 1: Journeys to Ordination
1 From “Orphan” to “Settler”: The Making of the Reverend Henry Budd
2 From Wars to a Prophet: The Making of the Reverend Tiyo Soga
Part 2: Lives
3 Alienated and Connected: Finding Positions
4 “Placed in very special circumstances”: Defining Themselves
5 Advocate and Adviser: Spreading Their Word
Part 3: Legacies
6 Henry Budd’s “Great Transformation”: A Cree Village Community
7 “The Destiny of the Kaffir Race”: A Xhosa National Community
Conclusion: Indigeneity and Empire
Notes
Bibliography
Index
