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Jo-Anne Ferreira's Exile Bibliography
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PRELIMINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE

MADEIRAN PRESBYTERIANS: FROM MADEIRA TO TRINIDAD AND TO THE US

Compiled by Jo-Anne S. Ferreira

1999

PRIMARY SOURCES

Newspapers

The Port of Spain Gazette

The Trinidad Spectator

The Trinidad Sentinel

Other published works

Anon. A Brief Statement of Facts Explanatory of the Present Position. Funchal, 1846.

Baillie, John. Memoir of the Reverend W.H. Hewitson. 2d. ed. London, 1858.

Blackburn, Reverend William Maxwell. The Exiles of Madeira. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, c.1860.

Dimitt, Della. A Story of Madeira. Cincinnati, 1896.

An English Resident. Narrative of Circumstances Connected with the Confinement of Dr. Robert Reid Kalley, now Prisoner in the Gaol in Madeira. Funchal, 1844.

Fernandes da Gama/Dagama, João. Perseguição dos Calvinistas da Madeira. São João do Rio Claro, Brazil, 1896.

Kalley, Dr. Robert Reid. Uma Exposição de Fatos. Funchal and Lisbon, 1843/1875.

———. "An account of the recent persecutions in Madeira. In a letter to a friend." 2d. ed. 1845.

———. "An account of the recent persecutions in Madeira. In a letter to a friend." London, 1844.

———. "Recent facts, showing how Popery treats the civil rights of Protestants, etc." 1847.

———. "A short statement of Dr. Kalley’s case: his expulsion from Madeira by outrage, etc." London, 1847.

———. Aos madeirenses.

———. Mais duas palavras sobre a revisão das Biblias.

Um madeirense/Madeira Resident. Revista histórica do prosletismo anti-católico exercido na ilha da Madeira pelo Dr. Roberto Reid Kalley, médico escocês, desde 1838, até hoje. Funchal, 1845. (See Sant’Ana e Vasconcelos?)

Norton, Reverend Norman. Record of Facts Concerning the Persecutions at Madeira in 1843 and 1846: the Flight of a Thousand Converts to the West India Islands; and also, the Sufferings of Those who Arrived (Here) in the United States. Second Edition: with a supplement sketching the history to October 1849. N.Y.: The American and Foreign Christian Union, 1849. (Also 1st and 3rd editions.) Full book available at http://books.google.com.

Patterson, A. Drummond. Chronicles of a Struggle. Edinburgh, 1894.

Pr(i?)estly, W.H. The History of the Presbyteryians of Springfield. Synod of Illinois, 1870–1888, Decatur 1888.

Sant’Ana e Vasconcelos, Manuel de. Revista histórica do proselitismo protestante exercido na ilha da Madeira pelo Dr. Robert Reid Kalley, medico escossez. Funchal, 1845.

Tate, J. Roddam. Madeira, or the spirit of Antichrist in a Series of Outrages Perpetrated in August Last (1846) on British Subjects and Portuguese Protestant Christians. London, 1847. Full book available at http://books.google.com.

Waterton, Charles. A contrast, being an account of the alleged persecutions inflicted on Dr. Kalley in Madeira, etc. 1846.

Wilson, Reverend W. Carus. The Madeira Persecutions. London, 1856.

 

SECONDARY SOURCES

Allers, Wanda Warkins and Eileen Lynch Gochanour. "The Gathering of the Portuguese, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Springfield, Illinois." Springfield, Illinois: Eileen Gochanour, 1984.

———. "First Portuguese Presbyterian Church of Jacksonville, Illinois 1855–1860." N.p., 1986.

Angle, Paul McClelland. "Here I Have Lived": A History of Lincoln’s Springfield 1821–1865. Springfield, IL.: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1935. (pp. 141–143.)

Brettell, Caroline. "Little-Known Portuguese Immigrant Community in Illinois." Portuguese Studies Newsletter 17 (1987) :14–15.

Cameron, Hugh Eliot. One Hundred and Twenty-Five Years of Service. The St. Ann’s Church of Scotland, Trinidad and Tobago, the West Indies, 1972.

———. "A Living Monument – A Historical Note." Church of Scotland Newsletter. Port-of-Spain: Greyfriars Church of Scotland, 1980.

Cardoso, Douglas Nassif. Robert Reid Kalley: Médico, Missionário e Profeta. São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo: Douglas Nassif Cardoso, 2001. (Order from [email protected])

Cardozo, Manoel da Silveira Soares. The Portuguese in America: A Chronology and Fact Book. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publishers, 1976.

DeShara, Walter. "Group from Madeira Islands Settled in Jacksonville, Illinois One Hundred and Two Years Ago." Standard Times. 20 May 1951. New Bedford, MA.

———. Historical Sketch: Northminster Presbyterian Church Centennial 1850–1950. Jacksonville, IL., 1950.

Eames, Charles M. Historic Morgan and Classic Jacksonville. Jacksonville, IL., 1885. (pp. 127–8, 173, 214.)

Earle, Gilbert. "A By-Path of Presbyterian Missions in the West Indies." The Trinidad Presbyterian, June 1923.

Ferreira Fernandes. Opinião. Grande Reportagem (Setembro 1995): 16.

__________________. "Os Madeirenses Errantes." Focus 42: 7 (Agosto 2000).

__________________. Os Madeirenses Errantes. Lisboa: Oficina do Livro, 2004.

Ferreira, Jo-Anne S. "The Portuguese of Trinidad." In The Book of Trinidad edited by Gérard A. Besson and Bridget Brereton. Port-of-Spain: Paria Publishing Company Ltd., 1991.

———. The Portuguese of Trinidad and Tobago: Portrait of an Ethnic Minority. St. Augustine: Institute of Social and Economic Research, U.W.I., 1994.

———. "The Portuguese Language in Trinidad and Tobago: A Study of Language Shift and Language Death." Diss. (Ph.D.) University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, 1999.

Ferreira, Júlio Andrade. História da Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil. Vol. 1. and Vol. 2. São Paulo: Editora Cultura Cristã, 1959.

Filho, M. Porto. Congregacionalismo Brasileiro. Rio de Janeiro: Departamento da Educação Religiosa e Publicações, 1997.

Fiore, Jordan D. "Mr. Lincoln’s Portuguese Neighbors." Lincoln-Herald 73 (1972): 150–155.

Franklin, C.B. After Many Years: A Memoir, being a Sketch in the Life and Labours of Reverend Alexander Kennedy, First Presbyterian Missionary to Trinidad, Founder of Greyfriars Church and its Pastor for Fourteen Years: January 1836–December 1849. Port-of-Spain: Franklin Electric Printery, 1910.

———. "Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Building of St. Ann’s Presbyterian Church 1854–1929 – A Historical Sketch." The Trinidad Presbyterian, June 1929.

———. "An Eighty-Seven Year Reminiscence: Flight of the Portuguese from Madeira in 1846." The Trinidad Presbyterian, September 1933.

———. St. Ann’s Church of Scotland Centennial Sketch 1846–1946. Port-of-Spain: Guardian Commercial Printery, 1946.

Gochanour, Eileen Lynch. "Second Portuguese Presbyterian Church of Springfield, Illinois 1858–1878." Springfield, IL.: n.p., 1985.

Guichard, François. "La Place de Madère dans l’Histoire du Protestantisme Lusophone (XIXe – XXE Siècles)." Actas III Colóquio Internacional de História da Madeira. Funchal: Centro de Estudos de História do Atlântico, 1993.

Helenthal, Ralph. "Church Is Portuguese Enclave" (Congregating Series). Journal-Courier. Jacksonville, IL., 24 July 1992.

Moreira, Eduardo. The Significance of Portugal; A Survey of the Religious Situation. London, 1933.

———. Vidas convergentes – historia breve dos movimentos de reforma cristã em Portugal a partir do século XVIII. Lisbon: Junta Presbiteriana de Cooperação em Portugal, 1958.

Poage, George Rawlings. "The Coming of the Portuguese." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 18 (1): 101–35 (April 1925). (Also in Spanish-Americans and Portuguese-Americans, edited by Carlos E. Cortés. N.Y.: Arno Press, 1980.)

Purves, James. An Island Story; the Scots in Madeira. Edinburgh, n.d.

Rocha, João Gomes da. Lembranças do Passado. 3 Vols. Rio de Janeiro, 1946.

Rutherford, Brian C., ed. Greyfriars of Trinidad 1837–1937: A Historical Sketch of the Congregation of Greyfriars Church of Scotland, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, to mark the 150th Anniversary. Port-of-Spain: Greyfriars Church of Scotland, 1987.

Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: the Prairie Years. 2 Vols. N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926. (V. 2, p. 271.)

Singer, Cathy. "A Party for the Portuguese," Illinois Times. 11–17 Nov 1977, pp. 8–11.

Testa, Michael Presbyter. "The Apostle of Madeira: Dr. Robert Reid Kalley" (Part 1) and "Portuguese Protestants in America" (Part 2), Journal of Presbyterian History 42 (1964): 175–97; 244–71.

———. O Apóstolo da Madeira (Dr. Robert Reid Kalley). Translated by Manuel de Sousa Campos. Lisbon: Igreja Evangélica Presbiteriana de Portugal, 1974.

——— Injuriados e perseguidos: panorámica histórica da Fé Reformado em Portugal. ??

Thornblad, Ardeen. "Coming of the Portuguese to Jacksonville." Unpublished Paper. Northminster Presbyterian Church, Jacksonville, IL., 19(??).

Tucker, John Taylor. Compêndio de História de Missões. Lisboa, 1984.

———. Heróis da Cruz. Lisbon, 1957.

Vasconcellos, Emmanuel M. "Brief Narrative of the Original Portuguese Church." Jacksonville, IL.: n.p, n.d. (Possibly 13 Nov 1927 in honour of the 45th anniversary of Springfield’s Portuguese Fourth Presbyterian Church.)

———. "A Brief History of the Portuguese Settlement at Jacksonville." Jacksonville, IL.: n.p., n.d. (c. 1921)

Wallace, Joseph. Past and Present of the City of Springfield and Sangamon County, Illinois. 2 Vols. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1904.

Wood, Donald. Trinidad in Transition. London: Oxford University Press, for the Institute of Race Relations, 1968.


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