Revised Edition
SOME WRITINGS ABOUT THE PORTUGUESE EXPERIENCE IN TRINIDAD & TOBAGO BY LUSO-DESCENDANTS
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Jo-Anne Ferreira's Exile Bibliography
Last Updated on July 1, 2007
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.
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———. “First Portuguese Presbyterian Church of Jacksonville, Illinois 1855–1860.” N.p., 1986.
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