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Review published In: Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Vol. 5:2 (1990) ► pp.309–315

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Johann Jakob Bossard. A Caribbean mission: C. G. A. Oldendorp's history of the Mission of the Evangelical Brethren on the Caribbean islands of St. Thomas, St. Croix, and St, John. Ann Arbor, MI: Karoma, 1987. xxxv, 737 pp. $24.95

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Published online: 1 January 1990
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