Your search
Results 51 resources
-
In 1878, Henry Craven opened the first Protestant mission in the Congo. The Livingstone Inland Mission created multiple stations along the Congo River to reach the interior. It stayed active for six years before transferring its stations to Swedish and American missions. Five years after its closure, a sister mission, the Congo Balolo Mission, resumed efforts to teach the people living in the interior. This thesis explores the evolving reaction of the missionaries to state violence. It argues that these missionaries initially supported imperial violence that enforced laws that aligned with their beliefs, such as removing the slave trade. Once that violence extended to profits alone and increased in violence, the missionaries joined the movement to improve conditions in the Congo.
-
In the late nineteenth century, abolitionists felt entitled to use all possible means to save the African victims of the slave trade. As European imperialism rose, abolitionism legitimized interventionism. This article explores how a major humanitarian movement could sanction colonial occupation and the violence that accompanied it. It also examines the position of African slaveholders who resisted the entrenchment of European rule and defended an order in which slavery was common. It focuses on two main actors: French Captain Leopold Joubert, Catholic royalist and former pontifical Zouave who supported Cardinal Lavigerie's Missionaries of Africa and Belgian King Leopold II's allegedly abolitionist endeavours; and Tippu Tip, a trader and slaver who, like Joubert, worked for self-styled abolitionists such as Leopold II and the Sultan of Zanzibar. The connected microhistories of these men show how the international problematization of African slavery fuelled both European imperialism and anti-colonial resistance, while also creating circumstances in which enslaved persons emancipated themselves. The article investigates the moral perceptions of individuals whose sense of self was predicated upon values embodied by Europe's monarchies, the papacy of Rome, and the sultanate of Zanzibar. Faced with what they perceived as existential threats to these institutions, they responded with rising radicalism.
-
Tippoo Tib ? Mahomed Masood & Saif bin Ahmed 4p. Very important
Explore
Topic
Resource type
- Book (13)
- Book Section (6)
- Encyclopedia Article (2)
- Journal Article (27)
- Manuscript (1)
- Thesis (2)
Publication year
-
Between 1800 and 1899
(6)
-
Between 1880 and 1889
(1)
- 1888 (1)
- Between 1890 and 1899 (5)
-
Between 1880 and 1889
(1)
-
Between 1900 and 1999
(30)
- Between 1900 and 1909 (3)
-
Between 1940 and 1949
(1)
- 1948 (1)
- Between 1950 and 1959 (3)
-
Between 1960 and 1969
(1)
- 1967 (1)
- Between 1970 and 1979 (10)
- Between 1980 and 1989 (7)
- Between 1990 and 1999 (5)
- Between 2000 and 2026 (15)