Its population shortly after the Civil War was 2,490, all black except for some white missionaries living there.

Influenced by white missionaries, the members of the different denominations became strictly sectarian in their practice.

Like many white missionaries before and after them, they were frustrated by the natives' lack of interest in becoming 'civilized.'

In addition the Hopes continued to befriend, house, and feed waves of young white missionaries.

He was born in Nigeria, but adopted by white missionaries.

"If you kept canonizing only white missionaries, those people would grow up with the wrong idea."

He'd made us stay here, when everybody from Nelson to the King of Belgium was saying white missionaries ought to go home.

He preached in Bau regularly, long before it was really opened to white missionaries.

That doesn't mean anything with regard to their language - many African negro languages were only reduced to writing by white missionaries.

He'd learned basic Portuguese from his father and from the white missionaries.