Missionary travels and researches in South Africa; including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda, on the westcoast; thence across the continent,.

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.

Related Resources

NYPL. "In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience."(2005) <http://www.inmotionaame.org>

Collection Data

Names
Livingstone, David, 1813-1873 (Author)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1857
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
Shelf locator: Sc Rare 916.8-L
Topics
South Africa
Genres
Books
Illustrations
Notes
Statement of responsibility: Steel-engraved portrait by Wm. Holl after Henry Phillips; wood-engravings by J.W. Whymper after Joseph Wolf and Capt. Henry Need; tinted lithographs by T. Picken and Day & Son (cf. Abbey, J.R. Travel, 347; which has lithographs by W. West).
Physical Description
Extent: Ix, [1], 687, [1] p., [27] leaves of plates (some folded) ill. (some col.), maps, port. ; 23 cm.
Engravings
Type of Resource
Still image
Text
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPGR1124807-B
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11716740
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): fd93dad0-c6b3-012f-778d-58d385a7bc34
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