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Malietoa, Williams and Samoa’s Embrace of Christianity.

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dc.contributor.author E. ROBSON, ANDREW
dc.date.accessioned 2021-12-10T00:41:45Z
dc.date.available 2021-12-10T00:41:45Z
dc.date.issued 2009-06
dc.identifier.citation DOI: 10.1080/00223340902900761 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0022-3344
dc.identifier.uri ${sadil.baseUrl}/handle/123456789/1617
dc.description 20 pages : PDF en_US
dc.description.abstract IN 1830, JOHN WILLIAMS OF THE LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY (LMS) ARRIVED IN Samoa IN his schooner, the missionary vessel Messenger of Peace, also known as the Olive Branch, the building of which he had undertaken and supervised at his station in Rarotonga. His Samoan guide, Fauea, who was hitching a ride home with his wife and family after 11 years in Tonga, guided Williams and the ship to Sapapali‘i, on the eastern side of Savai‘i. This was the home of Malietoa Vainu‘upo,1 who was just one battle away from securing for himself the last of four titles2 that together would confer on him the mantle of Tafa‘ifa, an honorific commanding great respect in Samoa.3 Malietoa and his younger brother Taimalelagi showed hospitality to Williams and his missionary companion Charles Barff, and when these two departed after a few days, the eight Polynesian teachers4 and their families who had accompanied them on the Messenger of Peace were left under Malietoa’s protection. Williams returned in 1832 and twice in 1838–39. It was from Samoa that Williams sailed to his death in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), and it was to Samoa that his purported remains were returned. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher The Journal of Pacific History en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Volume 44;No. 1
dc.subject Malietoa, Samoa, Christianity, Missionaries, History, en_US
dc.title Malietoa, Williams and Samoa’s Embrace of Christianity. en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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