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HSTRY 494B: Imagining Africa: Primary: Missionary Accounts
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This page provides links to examples of digitized missionary annual reports and magazines. Also search the UW Libraries Search, HathiTrust, and the Internet Archive for additional sources.
Searching for Missionary Accounts
All American libraries use official terminology created by the Library of Congress (LC) to categorize books by subject. For missionary accounts including memoirs, magazines, and other material, use the following terms: missions, missionaries, "missionary work". UW Libraries Search, HathiTrust, and the Internet Archive all use these Library of Congress terms. Combine these terms with the city/country/region to find accounts -- use a subject search option if available to ensure greater relevancy. Follow the search models included on the Travel Accounts section of this guide replacing "description and travel" with missions. For example: congo missions or kenya missionaries.
Annual Reports
Many missionary societies published annual reports/proceedings touting their accomplishments. The reports listed here were found in HathiTrust and at Yale's Day Missions Collection primarily focuses on Asia but there are some reports from African missions. NOTE: links to the Yale material may work better in the Firefox browser.
Missionary Magazines: Africa
Yale's Day Missions Collection also includes a small number of magazines published by African missions.
Missionary Magazines: General
Many mission organizations published a general magazine highlighting accomplishments throughout various regions. These general magazines often will include articles dealing with Africa and with specific countries and regions within the continent. The following magazines are examples available via HathiTrust. See the search example below the list to search within the content of a magazine (rather than browsing issue by issue to find pertinent articles.
To search within the content of a magazine in HathiTrust, use the Advanced Full-Text Search option using this model.
