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.

Collection History

This digital compilation was developed in support of the NYPL website, "The African American Migration Experience," a sweeping 500-year historical narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans.

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Collection Data

Names
Barber, M. A. S. (Mary Ann Serrett), -1864 (Author)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1857
Place: London
Publisher: J. Nisbet and Co.
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
Shelf locator: Sc Rare 266-B
Topics
Yoruba people
Genres
Prints
Illustrations
Physical Description
Extent: Xxiv, 222 p. illus.
Engraving
Type of Resource
Text
Still image
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPGR25985303-B
Barcode: 33433034101513
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11578723
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 31a94850-c629-012f-e99e-58d385a7bc34
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