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The Law Advertiser
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Our Shakespearean Heritage
Thomas Shakspeare lived at Balshall, England (1486-1527) and William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the Bard, was his direct descendant in the fourth generation. William's sister, Joan (b.1558), married William Hart (ca. 1564-1616) and Hart descendants intermarried with the Ashley family. Descendants include Mormons in England and the United States.
The London Gazette
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Protestant Missionaries & Humanitarianism in the DRC
A significant contribution to the history of humanitarianism, Christianity and the politics of aid in Africa.
Poisoned Relations
By the time of the opening of the Atlantic world in the fifteenth century, Europeans and Atlantic Africans had developed significantly different cultural idioms for and understandings of poison. Europeans considered poison a gendered “weapon of the weak” while Africans viewed it as an abuse by the powerful. Though distinct, both idioms centered on fraught power relationships. When translated to the slave societies of the Americas, these understandings sometimes clashed in conflicting interpretations of alleged poisoning events. In Poisoned Relations, Chelsea Berry illuminates the competing understandings of poison and power in the Atlantic World. Poison was connected to central concerns ...
A Prophet of the People
In 1910 Isaiah Shembe was struggling. He had left his family and quit his job as a sanitation worker to become a Baptist evangelist, but he ended his first mission without much to show. Little did he know that he would soon establish the Nazaretha Church as he began to attract attention from people left behind by industrial capitalism in South Africa. By his death in 1935, Shembe was an internationally known prophet and healer, described by his peers as “better off than all the Black people.” In A Prophet of the People: Isaiah Shembe and the Making of a South African Church, historian Lauren V. Jarvis provides a fascinating and intimate portrait of one of South Africa’s most famous religious figures, and in turn the making of modern South Africa. Following Shembe from his birth in the 1860s across many environments and contexts, Jarvis illuminates the tight links between the spread of Christianity, strategies of evasion, and the capacious forms of community that continue to shape South Africa today.
