Sunday, September 1, 2013

The Moravian Mission to the African Slaves of the Danish West Indies, 1732-1828


Shaubah Murphy, Patricia, The Moravian Mission to the African Slaves of the Danish West Indies, 1732-1828, St. Thomas, USVI: Caribbean Research Institute, 1969.

About the author:
Patricia Shaubah Murphy received her A.B. degree in 1940 from Hunter College, New York, and her Ed.M. degree from Harvard University in 1961. She is currently working on her dissertation for the Ed.D. degree, a study in comparative education, at Harvard University. Mrs. Murphy was affiliated with the College of the Virgin Islands from 1963 to 1966, as Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Humanities during the academic years 1963-64 and 1965-66. In 1964-65, affiliated with the Caribbean Research Institute, she did the research for this publication under a grant from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which included a five month period of research in the Danish archives in Copenhagen. Mrs. Murphy has taught modern languages and history in North and south America, including the Virgin Islands, since 1945.
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