In the 1800's, Catholic missionary expeditions were launched with new
vigour to the West, in Senegal and Gabon. Protestant missionaries took
up work in Sierra Leone in 1804. The missionaries represented a big spectrum
of denominations or churches: Catholic, Protestant, Anglican, many of
them in competition and conflict with each other.
The abolition of slave owning in 1807 and slave trading in 1834 throughout
the British Empire proved to be two important turning points. Outlawing
the slave trade and converting freed slaves became a powerful motive for
setting up European Christian missions. Human compassion in Europe for
the plight of slaves meant that money could be raised to fund the considerable
expenses of setting up a mission.
The Protestants spread the Christian gospel through the slaves who were
liberated from slaving ships along the West Coast after 1834. The application
of Christian doctrine was much stricter than it had been in previous centuries.
The success of Christian missionary programmes can be linked to the education
they offered. Many people in Africa wanted education; and missionaries
taught people to read, in order that they might understand the word of
God.
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Missionaries, Masculinities and War: The London Missionary Society in Southern Africa, ... - 8 views
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Missionaries, Masculinities and War: The London Missionary Society in Southern Africa, c.1860–18991
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This article seeks to explore how missionaries negotiated masculine identities within southern Africa, and how images of missionary masculinity were then conveyed.
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This article offers a contribution to gendering the male missionary in the southern African case. My first aim is to argue that late nineteenth-century southern Africa is an important arena for the study of missionary masculinity. My second aim is to explore the nature of this masculinity and to suggest some ways in which missionary masculinity drew on wider colonial patterns of gender construction. My third aim is to look at how the experience and witnessing of warfare and conflict, a characteristic of late nineteenth-century southern Africa, contributed to the formation of missionary identity.
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These are the aims the author aimed at achieving by focusing mainly on the male missionaries with the masculinity. This means the social expectations of being a man in society. The roles, behaviors and attributes that are considered appropriate for boys and men.
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By mid-1872 it had ben decided that a special mission, led by Sir Bartle Frere, would go to Zanzibar to negotiate a new treaty with Bargash. He was appointed Governor of the Cape Colony in 1877 after having classifying himself as an imperial administrator in India and Zanzibar.
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Correspondence Respecting Sir Bartle Frere's Mission to the East Coast of Africa - Docu... - 1 views
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This is the page which shows the extension of the missionary tours into the East Africa.
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