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"School boys in the school garden." "Nyasaland [Malawi]." ❧ Photograph showing four young men each working in separate plots, one next to another. In each plot a small selection of various crops are being grown in neat rows, and the boys are weeding between them. ❧ Blantyre Mission was established in 1876 in the Shire Highlands of Southern Nyasaland [Malawi] by Henry Henderson (1843-1891) and from here other mission stations were established at Zomba, Domasi, Chirazulu and Mlanje. Blantyre was named after the birth place of David Livingstone, in South Lanarkshire, and is famous for the ornate church built by Clement Scott. According to Stewart of Lovedale it is, ‘probably the most striking native church in all central Africa, except the cathedral at Zanzibar’. The Blantyre mission excelled in medical and education provision and encouraged the commercialisation of the area through opening trade routes and the cultivation of tobacco, and other cash, crops. This was, in part, a response to the slave trade and missionaries believed that an end to this practice could only be achieved through the development of alternative trading patterns. ❧ This image belongs to an album of photographs collected by Dr. Stevenson and includes images from India, China and Africa.
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