Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, Bookplate.

Description

1. xxiv, 222 pages : illustrations

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Alternative title

1. Village life in the Yoruba country

Subject

1. Yoruba (African people)
2. Bookplates (Provenance)
3. Yoruba (African people) > Missions

Contents

1. Prepace -- Introductory chapter -- Meroke at home -- Market -- Arrival of the caravan -- First sermon - removal to Oshielle - festival of Osho-Osi -- Rumours of war - White man's spying - Atadi burnt -- Meroke at church -- African farmer's way of life - the Priest - Ess a candidate for baptism -- Lubakeh's story - burning of the farm produce -- Slave mother; a letter from the catechist to a friend in England -- Candidate for baptism - Lasope - Akashi - Raand his Orisa, "never" - visit of the rev. D. Hinderer and Mrs. Hinderer - church opened - the first baptisms - letters from the converts and the chief -- First grave -- Sprinkling with scare water - visits to the farm - inhospitable reception - festival of Osho-Osi - Moroke's safety - first communion -- Persecutions - Olumide - the slave - the thunder god -- Christian life at Oshielle - the first death -love of the sabath - the backslider restore - the first bride at Oshielle - the contrast - report of the station - letter from the chief - letter from the converts

Call number

1. Sc Rare 266-B (Barber, M. A. S. Oshielle, or, Village life)

Note

1. "T.C. Johns, printer, Wine office court, Fleet Street"-- t.p. verso.

Indexed in (note)

1. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Provenance (note)

1. With bookplate of Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection.

Author

1. Barber, M. A. S. (Mary Ann Serrett), -1864, author.

Title

1. Oshielle, or, Village life in the Yoruba country ; from the journals and letters of a catechist there, describing the rise of a Christian church in an African village / by M.A.S. Barber.

Imprint

1. London : J. Nisbet and Co., 1857.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Indexed in:

1. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 1, page 773, column 3, row 5.

Provenance

1. With bookplate of Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection. NN

Local note

1. Schomburg Center's Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division's copy has accession no. J543809 in ink on the inside cover of the book. Probably one of the books s added to the collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the collection librarian, and Lawrence Reddick was the Curator. Imperfect: loose pages; lacks an original cover. Bound in library binding, red cloth over boards, and a gilt spine; current house in a protective archival box.

Source

1. J543809. NN

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1. NYPL Digital Collections
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Local subject

1. Bookplates (Provenance).

Place of publication

1. Great Britain England London.

Added author

1. Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, Bookplate.
2. Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995, Curator.

Other form:

1. Online version: Barber, M.A.S. (Mary Ann Serrett), -1864. Oshielle. Oshielle, or, Village life in the Yoruba country. London, J. Nisbet and co., 1857 (OCoLC)781302795

Research call number

1. Sc Rare 266-B (Barber, M. A. S. Oshielle, or, Village life)