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- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/EK00000295/00001
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- Content Advice:
- Warning: Readers are advised to proceed with caution when consulting this document because it may contain offensive or discriminatory language or imagery. ( English,English )
- Abstract:
- Shows Mr Post's Residence and other buildings, including the minister's house, the chapel, coffee lodge, hospital, manager's house, Kitchen, poultry-house, stable and chaise-house. One of the figures shown in the painting is assumed to be Mr Post.
- Scope and Content:
- Depicted are the chaise house; stable; poultry house; kitchen; Mr. Post's residence; the manager's house; hospital; a coffee lodge; the chapel, and the Minister's house. ( English )
- Biographical:
- References to Mr Post and Le Resouvenir, his plantation (eight miles from George Town, Demerara), can be found in 'The History of the London Missionary Society, 1795-1895', by Richard Lovett (Vol. II, pp 319-320). Lovett describes the early work of the London Missionary Society in Demerara, where they established a mission in 1807: "Mr H. H. Post, a planter, concerned for the spiritual welfare of the slaves and others under his care, had written to the Directors [of the LMS] urging them to send out a minister, and promising his own protection and assistance." The missionary John Wray was selected for this service, arriving in 1808, where he worked chiefly among the enslaved Africans on Mr Post's plantations, and those from neighbouring estates. Lovett goes on to describe how Mr Post contributed financially to the building of the mission: "A chapel capable of holding 600 hearers was built, mainly at his expense and upon his land, the Directors contributing £100. It was opened September 11, 1808. Mr Post built also a minister's house, expending on these works over £1,000."
- Biographical:
- The Demerara Slave Uprising of August 1823 began in Le Resouvenir.
- General Note:
- Painting of 'Le Resouvenir, Demerary' (CWM/LMS/01/09/05/06/03) is part of West Indies/Caribbean Pictures (CWM/LMS/01/09/05/06) which is collected with the Council for World Mission Archive (CWM) London Missionary Society (CWM/LMS).
- Statement of Responsibility:
- Artist and date unknown.
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS University of London
- Holding Location:
- Special Collections
- Rights Management:
 This item is licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this work non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms.- Resource Identifier:
- CWM/LMS/01/09/05/06/03 ( soas archival reference )
CWM/LMS/Home/West Indies Pictures/3 ( soas order with reference )
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