عنوان

American Presbyterian Missionaries, Enslavement, and Anti-Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Gabon

شماره

LA127011

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

American Presbyterian Missionaries, Enslavement, and Anti-Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Gabon

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

John M. Cinnamon

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

When American Presbyterian and Congregationalist missionaries arrived in the Gabon Estuary in the 1840s, they entered a world marked by vibrant commerce; violence and inequality; widespread slavery and slave-trading; British, French, and U.S. Anti-Slavery Patrols; and incipient French colonialism. This article draws on the published accounts by two U.S. missionaries, John Leighton Wilson, who served in Gabon from 1842 to 1851, and Robert Hamill Nassau, who worked on Corisco Island, the Gabon Estuary and Ogowe River, and the southern Cameroon coast from 1861 to 1906. Together, their writings provide insights into early colonialism and especially the long decline of enslavement and slave trading. While Wilson witnessed the establishment of Libreville in the 1840s, Nassau encountered slave trading first on Corisco and later on the Ogowe during the period of French colonial exploration. Both men, shaped by their African experiences as well as their respective social locations in the United States, held strong views on African domestic slavery and the slave trade. Wilson, from the South, was an ambivalent abolitionist who railed against the Atlantic Slave trade while hesitating to denounce slavery and racial inequality in his native South Carolina. Nassau, from New Jersey and educated at conservative Princeton University, was prompted above all by the missionary impulse. He sought to convert and "uplift" formerly enslaved Africans while nevertheless underlining their "servile" characters and benefitting from their labor as docile, socially vulnerable mission workers. When American Presbyterian and Congregationalist missionaries arrived in the Gabon Estuary in the 1840s, they entered a world marked by vibrant commerce; violence and inequality; widespread slavery and slave-trading; British, French, and U.S. Anti-Slavery Patrols; and incipient French colonialism. This article draws on the published accounts by two U.S. missionaries, John Leighton Wilson, who served in Gabon from 1842 to 1851, and Robert Hamill Nassau, who worked on Corisco Island, the Gabon Estuary and Ogowe River, and the southern Cameroon coast from 1861 to 1906. Together, their writings provide insights into early colonialism and especially the long decline of enslavement and slave trading. While Wilson witnessed the establishment of Libreville in the 1840s, Nassau encountered slave trading first on Corisco and later on the Ogowe during the period of French colonial exploration. Both men, shaped by their African experiences as well as their respective social locations in the United States, held strong views on African domestic slavery and the slave trade. Wilson, from the South, was an ambivalent abolitionist who railed against the Atlantic Slave trade while hesitating to denounce slavery and racial inequality in his native South Carolina. Nassau, from New Jersey and educated at conservative Princeton University, was prompted above all by the missionary impulse. He sought to convert and "uplift" formerly enslaved Africans while nevertheless underlining their "servile" characters and benefitting from their labor as docile, socially vulnerable mission workers.

تاريخ نشر

2013

توصيف ظاهري

93-122

عنوان

Social Sciences and Missions

شماره جلد

26/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1874-8945

اصطلاح موضوعی

colonialisme

اصطلاح موضوعی

Corisco

اصطلاح موضوعی

esclavage et lutte contre l'esclavage

اصطلاح موضوعی

Gabon

اصطلاح موضوعی

guerre civile américaine

اصطلاح موضوعی

History of Religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

Liberia

اصطلاح موضوعی

missionnaires presbytériens

اصطلاح موضوعی

Presbyterian missionaries

اصطلاح موضوعی

Religion & Society

اصطلاح موضوعی

Religious Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

slavery and anti-slavery

اصطلاح موضوعی

Social Sciences

اصطلاح موضوعی

U.S. Civil War

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

John M. Cinnamon

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/18748945-02601003

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y