Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West AfricaHarvard University Press, 2009年6月1日 - 291 頁 In 1792, nearly 1,200 freed American slaves crossed the Atlantic and established themselves in Freetown, West Africa, a community dedicated to anti-slavery and opposed to the African chieftain hierarchy that was tied to slavery. Thus began an unprecedented movement with critical long-term effects on the evolution of social, religious, and political institutions in modern Africa. Lamin Sanneh's engrossing book narrates the story of freed slaves who led efforts to abolish the slave trade by attacking its base operation: the capture and sale of people by African chiefs. Sanneh's protagonists set out to establish in West Africa colonies founded on equal rights and opportunity for personal enterprise, communities that would be havens for ex-slaves and an example to the rest of Africa. Among the most striking of these leaders is the Nigerian Samuel Ajayi Crowther, a recaptured slave who joined a colony in Sierra Leone and subsequently established satellite communities in Nigeria. The ex-slave repatriates brought with them an evangelical Christianity that encouraged individual spirituality--a revolutionary vision in a land where European missionaries had long assumed they could Christianize the whole society by converting chiefs and rulers. Tracking this potent African American anti-slavery and democratizing movement through the nineteenth century, Lamin Sanneh draws a clear picture of the religious grounding of its conflict with the traditional chieftain authorities. His study recounts a crucial development in the history of West Africa. |
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第 vii 頁
... becoming more useful to them as freemen , than ever they have been , or can be , as slaves . Thus , on the wreck of tyranny , let us build altars to humanity , and prove to the negroes that the Europeans , become just from sound policy ...
... becoming more useful to them as freemen , than ever they have been , or can be , as slaves . Thus , on the wreck of tyranny , let us build altars to humanity , and prove to the negroes that the Europeans , become just from sound policy ...
第 2 頁
... become an entrenched social institution , as the Baba of Karo , a Hausa woman of northern Nigeria , describes in her ... becoming king in 1506.5 Thus between 1513 and 1516 just under 3,000 slaves were transported to Lisbon and over 370 ...
... become an entrenched social institution , as the Baba of Karo , a Hausa woman of northern Nigeria , describes in her ... becoming king in 1506.5 Thus between 1513 and 1516 just under 3,000 slaves were transported to Lisbon and over 370 ...
第 4 頁
... becoming with time a chicken- and - egg question . Therefore , it was necessary to attack the problem at its source and to establish a colony that would be a haven for ex - slaves and an example to the rest of Africa . People were not ...
... becoming with time a chicken- and - egg question . Therefore , it was necessary to attack the problem at its source and to establish a colony that would be a haven for ex - slaves and an example to the rest of Africa . People were not ...
第 5 頁
... become natural allies of abolition . Yet they were too important , too embedded in the social structure , to be ignored by a foreign cause like antislavery . It would be unthinkable to trust the chiefs , yet impossible , too , to avoid ...
... become natural allies of abolition . Yet they were too important , too embedded in the social structure , to be ignored by a foreign cause like antislavery . It would be unthinkable to trust the chiefs , yet impossible , too , to avoid ...
第 6 頁
... become instead an African and an African American cause , something that blacks themselves deeply desired and for which they were prepared to take risks . It was not enough to plant a free colony in Africa , provide it with European ...
... become instead an African and an African American cause , something that blacks themselves deeply desired and for which they were prepared to take risks . It was not enough to plant a free colony in Africa , provide it with European ...
內容
Change in the Old Order | 140 |
Brokers or Collaborators? | 142 |
Thomas Jefferson Bowen and the Manifest Middle Class | 145 |
Crowther and the Niger Expedition | 150 |
The Niger Mission Resumed | 161 |
Antislavery and Its New Friends | 165 |
The Native Pastorate and Its Nemesis | 167 |
Anatomy of a Cause | 170 |
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Antislavery and Black Loyalists in the American Revolution | 31 |
The Black Poor in London | 40 |
The Sierra Leone Resettlement Plan | 41 |
Antislavery and Early Colonization in America | 45 |
Moving Antislavery to Africa | 50 |
Freedom and the Evangelical Convergence | 53 |
Upsetting the Natural Order | 55 |
Pushing at the Boundaries | 59 |
A Plantation of Religion and the Enterprise Culture in Africa | 66 |
Antislavery and Antistructure | 69 |
David George | 74 |
Moses Wilkinson | 80 |
The Countess of Huntingdons Connexion | 85 |
Paul Cuffee | 88 |
The Voluntarist Impulse | 101 |
Christianity and Antinomianism | 103 |
Abolition and the Cause of Recaptive Africans | 110 |
Christendom Revisited | 113 |
Recaptives and the New Society | 122 |
The Example of Samuel Ajayi Crowther | 126 |
The Strange Career of John Ezzidio | 129 |
The Niger Expedition Missionary Imperatives and African Ferment | 139 |
Debacle | 175 |
Reaction and Resistance | 177 |
American Colonization and the Founding of Liberia | 182 |
Colonization Sentiments | 183 |
Purse and Principle | 185 |
The Humanitarian Motive and the Evangelical Impulse | 187 |
Americas Spiritual Kingdom | 192 |
Mission of Inquiry | 194 |
American Colonization and the Founding of Liberia 197 | 197 |
Fact and Fiction | 198 |
Privatization of Public Responsibility | 203 |
Lott Carey and Liberia | 210 |
Expansion and Exclusion | 212 |
Black Ideology | 221 |
Conclusion | 238 |
Antislavery | 239 |
Antistructure | 240 |
The American Factor | 241 |
Crowther the CMS and Evangelical Religion | 243 |
New World Lessons | 246 |
Notes | 251 |
Sources | 281 |
Index | 283 |
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第 183 頁 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of Fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
第 48 頁 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
第 254 頁 - We must not forget that these little communities were contaminated by distinctions of caste and by slavery, that they subjugated man to external circumstances instead of elevating man to be the sovereign of circumstances, that they transformed a self-developing social state into never changing natural destiny, and thus brought about a brutalizing worship of nature, exhibiting its degradation in the fact that man, the sovereign of nature, fell down on his knees in adoration of Hanuman, the monkey,...
第 37 頁 - What further is to be done with them?" join themselves in opposition with those who are actuated by sordid avarice only. Among the Romans emancipation required but one effort. The slave, when made free, might mix with, without staining the blood of his master. But with us a second is necessary, unknown to history. When freed, he is to be removed beyond the reach of mixture.
第 132 頁 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection . As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead and those who are to be born.
第 31 頁 - And I do hereby further declare all indented servants, negroes, or others (appertaining to rebels) free, that are able and willing to bear arms, they joining his majesty's troops as soon as may be, for the more speedily reducing his colony to a proper sense of their duty to his majesty's crown and dignity.
第 274 頁 - A Practical View of the prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians in the Higher and Middle Classes of this Country, contrasted with Real Christianity...
第 237 頁 - Our constitution secures to us, so far as our condition allows, "all the rights and privileges enjoyed by the citizens of the United States ;" and these rights, and these privileges are ours. We are proprietors of the soil we live on ; and possess the rights of freeholders. Our suffrages, and, what is of more importance, our sentiments and our opinions, have their due weight in the government we live under. Our laws are altogether our own ; they...
第 121 頁 - The three combined bodies, Missionaries, Government and Companies, or gainers of money, do form the same rule to look upon the native with mockery eyes. It sometimes startles us to see that the three combined bodies are from Europe, and along with them there is a title, "CHRISTENDOM.
第 38 頁 - His Britannic Majesty shall with all convenient speed, and without causing any destruction, or carrying away any Negroes or other property of the American Inhabitants, withdraw all his Armies...