A Driven Man - Missionary Thomas S. Grace - Battling for Māori Causes Amid Controversy, Hardship & Danger by David Grace

This is a second-hand copy of the book A Driven Man - Missionary Thomas S. Grace - Battling for Māori Causes Amid Controversy, Hardship & Danger by David Grace. This copy is signed by the author David Grace - see photos. 

Condition: This is a used book in very good condition.

Publisher: Ngaio Press
Year: 2004
ISBN: 9780958224352
Format: Softback
Pages: 375
Condition: Used (Very Good)

Grace was the most outspoken, controversial missionary of his time. Writing with passion and eloquence, he took a view of the hardships and injustices suffered by Māori that would be shared by commentators today. He is already quoted in Treaty claims research and this book is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Heritage. Grace and his wife Agnes were at Gisborne (Turanga) 1850-1853, then established a mission at Pukawa on Lake Taupo, 1855-1863. He refused to be a chaplain to the forces and was thus able to travel through the Bay of Plenty, Taupo and the upper Waikato, facing many hazards and often starving with the people. He encouraged Māori enterprise and the retention of their lands. His letters target "the wretched expediency" of government policy, land grabbers, grog-sellers, the conduct of soldiery, the contracting of Māori road gangs. He criticised fellow missionaries for buying or grazing Māori land, abandoning their posts to serve the troops, turning to town parishes and alienating mission lands. He campaigned for renewed service to Māori and an autonomous Māori section of the Anglican church - with its own native bishop.
He took a sympathetic view of Hauhau and Ringatu.