Bibles and Beads: Missionaries as Traders in Southern Africa in the Early Nineteenth Ce... - 6 views
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When missionaries first arrived at the Cape in 1799 they brought Bibles in their right hands, and beads and buttons in their left. The conditions under which they worked and the African societies among whom they lived obliged them to become traders upon their arrival in the Cape Colony. They did not always accept this commercial role willingly, but they often had little choice
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Missionaries of the London missionary society , trade European products in and across the boarders of the Cape colony in the late 1700s.
