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Research paper thumbnail of The Missionary's Wayward Daughter. How Sarah Henry Bland Passaged Through the Pacific: 1797-1843

This thesis explores the life of Sarah Henry Bland (1797-1843). Sarah was born in Tahiti, just tw... more This thesis explores the life of Sarah Henry Bland (1797-1843). Sarah was born in Tahiti, just two months after missionaries of the London Missionary Society landed at Matavai Bay, Tahiti. This was the first Pacific protestant mission. Sarah became the subject of scandal and censure in Tahiti when she was sexually intimate with a tāne. In New South Wales, where she lived between 1814 and 1822, she married Dr William Bland outside the non-conformist community, and shortly after, committed adultery. A court case publicly shamed her. She returned briefly to a changed Tahiti where her behaviour again caused gossip and she left for London in 1822, where she died in obscurity in 1843. The thesis asks: can we account for Sarah’s intimate racial-crossing and her denunciation of the mission project by the circumstance of this particular place where she grew up ––Te moana nui a kiwa –– and the time –– prior to the mass conversion of Mā‘ohi in 1819? What was it about Sarah’s childhood that inf...

Research paper thumbnail of Attitudes Toward Chinese Immigrants

Research paper thumbnail of Attitudes toward Chinese immigrants to British Columbia, 1858-1885

Research paper thumbnail of Attitudes toward Chinese immigrants to British Columbia, 1858-1885

Research paper thumbnail of Breaking the silence; destroying the lies: an education programme on violence against women

Studies in Continuing Education, 1989

Research paper thumbnail of The Missionary's Wayward Daughter. How Sarah Henry Bland Passaged Through the Pacific: 1797-1843

This thesis explores the life of Sarah Henry Bland (1797-1843). Sarah was born in Tahiti, just tw... more This thesis explores the life of Sarah Henry Bland (1797-1843). Sarah was born in Tahiti, just two months after missionaries of the London Missionary Society landed at Matavai Bay, Tahiti. This was the first Pacific protestant mission. Sarah became the subject of scandal and censure in Tahiti when she was sexually intimate with a tāne. In New South Wales, where she lived between 1814 and 1822, she married Dr William Bland outside the non-conformist community, and shortly after, committed adultery. A court case publicly shamed her. She returned briefly to a changed Tahiti where her behaviour again caused gossip and she left for London in 1822, where she died in obscurity in 1843. The thesis asks: can we account for Sarah’s intimate racial-crossing and her denunciation of the mission project by the circumstance of this particular place where she grew up ––Te moana nui a kiwa –– and the time –– prior to the mass conversion of Mā‘ohi in 1819? What was it about Sarah’s childhood that inf...

Research paper thumbnail of Attitudes Toward Chinese Immigrants

Research paper thumbnail of Attitudes toward Chinese immigrants to British Columbia, 1858-1885

Research paper thumbnail of Attitudes toward Chinese immigrants to British Columbia, 1858-1885

Research paper thumbnail of Breaking the silence; destroying the lies: an education programme on violence against women

Studies in Continuing Education, 1989

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