cover image: Letter from Aldin Grout and Charlotte Bailey to James and Elizabeth Bailey

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Letter from Aldin Grout and Charlotte Bailey to James and Elizabeth Bailey

1840

Ocean voyage to South Africa. "Dingaan's power is, we hear, very much broken, and we hear has been driven from his country, and that the Boers have issued a proclaimation, taking in to the territory they call their own, about half the country occupied by the Zulus including both Dingans residence and Givani the station occupied by by. Champion & myself..." Sickness spreading in Natal, brought in by slaves from a captured slave ship from the east coast.
missionaries--south africa zulu (african people)--history dingane approximately 1793-1840 south africa--history--1811--1878

Authors

Grout, Aldin, Bailey, Elizabeth, Bailey, James

Collection
Aldin Grout Papers
Format
Correspondence
Pages
3 p.
Place Discussed
South Africa
Provider
Digital Commonwealth
Published in
South Africa
Reference
Local other: mums797-b01-f13-i001
Rights
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Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/9dc8d9a9722352875887ce67743456fa