Miscellaneous materials from the USPG archives
Miscellaneous materials from the USPG archives
Collection: Indigenous Cultures and Christian Conversion in Ghana and Sierra Leone, 1700–1850 Volumes Miscellaneous materials from the USPG archives
In January 1752 Reverend Thomas Thompson arrived at James Fort on the Gambia river. This marked the launch of the first mission by The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in West Africa (more than fifty years after its incorporation by royal charter during the reign of William III). From 1766 onwards, the mission was overseen by the Reverend Philip Quaque, the first African to be ordained into the priesthood of the Church of England. Although an Anglican bishopric of Sierra Leone was established by the Church Mission Society in Freetown, there seems to have been a pause in SPG activity in the region following Quaque's death in 1811. This hiatus drew to a close during the mid-nineteenth century. This period witnessed the establishment of the West Indian Church Association for the Furtherance of the Gospel in Western Africa and its mission to the Rio Pongas.
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An account of two missionary voyages
Rev. Thomas Thompson MA (1708?-1773) was the instigator of the SPG mission to the Gold Coast, now Ghana. Between 1740 and 1750 he served as a missionary of the Society...
Date:1745-1758Contributor:Rhodes House Library
Identifier:72047-SPG-1758
The letters of Rev. Phillip Quaque, 1766-1811
Philip Quaque (now spelt, Kwaku or Kweku) was the only one to survive of the three Cape Coast boys sent by the missionary Thomas Thompson to London to be educated...
Date:1766-1811Contributor:Rhodes House Library
Identifier:72047-SPG-1765
Report of the West Indian Church Association
Published in 1853 by George Bell of Fleet Street, London, the full title: Second report of the West Indian Church Association for the Furtherance of the Gospel in Western Africa...
Date:1852-1853Contributor:Rhodes House Library
Identifier:72047-SPG-1853
Pongas mission
Relating to the Rio Ponga, Guinea, this report was pinted at the Barbadian Office, High Street, Barbados, in May 1859. Described as the "Half-yearly report of the Babados Mission Board",...
Date:1859-1859Contributor:Rhodes House Library
Identifier:72047-SPG-1859
The beginning of Africanisation
A short work by F.L. Bartels printed in 1951 by the Mfantsiman Press, Cape Coast, and subtitled "The dawn of the missionary motive in Gold Coast education," marking the bicentenary...
Date:1752-1865Contributor:Rhodes House Library
Identifier:72047-SPG-1951
Extracts from the Society's journal
Copies of the few pages about Rev. Thompson in the SPG's journal, beginning with references to his original proposal dated 10th November 1750, and ending with a report on the...
Date:1750-1753Contributor:Rhodes House Library
Identifier:72047-SPG-1750
Original letters received, 1856-1859
Series D/8: Items relating to Sierra Leone extracted from this volume.
Date:1856-1859Contributor:Rhodes House Library
Identifier:72047-SPG-1859d
Original letters received, 1860-1867
Series D/24a: Items relating to Sierra Leone from this West Africa volume, including some accounts of expenditure.
Date:1860-1867Contributor:Rhodes House Library
Identifier:72047-SPG-1860
