Dogter van Sion. Machtelt Smit en die 18de-eeuse samelewing aan die Kaap, 1749-1799
by Schoeman, Karel
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0798137592
- ISBN 13
- 9780798137591
- Seller
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About This Item
(Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1997) 0798137592. 8vo; original purple boards, lettered in white on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 440, incl. index; plates. Trace of browning to endpapers; very slightly shelf-rubbed. Near-fine condition. Afrikaans text. "Machtelt Smit (1749-1821), die 'Mother Smith' van die vroeë Engelse sendelinge, kan in Karel Schoeman se woorde gesien word as die eerste gebore Suid-Afrikaanse vrou wat in eie reg bekendheid verwerf het. Teen die einde van haar lang lewe het Machtelt Smit nie net aan die Kaap nie maar ook in die sendingkringe van Nederland en Engeland wydverspreide roem geniet as sendingweldoener, as sendingwerker op Bethelsdorp en onder die slawe, en as vriendin en vertroueling van dr. J.T. van der Kemp. As kleindogter van 'n Duitse huursoldaat en 'n gewese slavin kan sy voorts op heel besondere wyse as verteenwoordiger van die agttiende-eeuse samelewing aan die Kaap beskou word. Hierdie biografie beskryf die vroeë lewe van Machtelt Smit, die ontwikkeling van die piëtisme onder die blanke inwoners van die Kaap in die agttiende eeu, en die eerste sendingwerk wat plaaslik onderneem is met spesiale aandag vir die rol van vroue en van slawe in die tyd van die Nederlandse Oos-Indiese Kompanjie." .
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- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12121
- Title
- Dogter van Sion. Machtelt Smit en die 18de-eeuse samelewing aan die Kaap, 1749-1799
- Author
- Schoeman, Karel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0798137592
- ISBN 13
- 9780798137591
- Publisher
- (Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1997) 0798137592
- Place of Publication
- South Africa
- This edition first published
- 1997
- Keywords
- Cape of Good Hope. Missionaries. Bethelsdorp. Slavery Cape
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cape;
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About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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