Group photograph of young children from Mwenza, "Slave children from Mwenza". The children are arranged in two rows and all are dressed in white gowns. Mwenza is located in northern Malawi. This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to Dr Robert Laws (1851-1934) the Scottish Missionary. In 1875, inspired by David Livingstone (1813-1873), Laws travelled to Malawi and was involved in the foundation of the mission station of Livingstonia on the shores of Lake Nyasa. During the succeeding 50 years he also established a network of hundreds of schools. In 1908 Laws was elected moderator of the General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland.
Authors
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m68627
- Date published
- 1875/1925
- Dates
- 1875/1925
- Format
- Lantern slides
- Pages
- 1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Africa Malawi
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Malawi
- Reference
- impa-m68627 [Legacy record ID]; imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS5-1-040.tif
- Rights
- Centre for the Study of World Christianity Contact the repository for details. The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/collections/
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/f9dc64ac8430c0c2c28875a4b1a3f89a
