The Xhosa chiefs were quite circumspect in their initial dealings with the missionaries. By this time the Xhosa were well aware of the results of European contact and understandably chary of the missionaries. Ostensibly the various mission societies needed the permission of local chiefs to establish stations in Xhosaland, but with the knowledge that the missionaries were nominally supported by the British colonial government the chiefs had little option but to comply.
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There were a variety of humanitarian, economic, political, and sociological reasons why Christian missionaries came to East Africa and Africa in general. The Portuguese were the first to bring Christianity to the coast of east Africa in the 15th century, but their efforts were not very successful. The goal of the missionaries was to bring Christianity to the people of East Africa. The holy gospel would be preached and taught in order to encourage conversions to Christianity. They desired to combat the East African slave trade. Abolishing the slave trade in East Africa was something that earlier adventurers like John Speke and James Grant, H.M. Stanley, Dr. David Livingstone, and others had documented. They intended to convert people to Christianity while keeping an eye on how Islam was spreading in East Africa from the shore. Some missionaries arrived as a result of invitations from certain African chiefs. For instance, Mutesa I of Buganda sent a letter welcoming missionary to his country through H.M. Stanley.
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Re-examining initial encounters between Christian missionaries and the Xhosa, 1820-1850... - 1 views
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The Xhosa chiefs were wary of European contact, but were forced to agree due to the British colonial administration's funding. This also somehow emphasize the colonializers power over the colonized countries.
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When Scottish missionaries moved into Xhosaland in the early 1820s, they found that they had chosen to establish their stations on one of the most troubled sections of the Cape colonial frontier. This disruption was the result of clashes between two expanding groups, the Western (Rharabe) Xhosa and the Europeans who were attempting to move into one another's territory. Xhosa-speaking people had been settled in this area for centuries. 4 Population pressure, secessional disputes left: 560.4px; top: 585.97px; font-size: 15.6px; font-family: sans-serif;
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The conflict between the Western (Rharabe) Xhosa and the Europeans in Xhosaland in the 1820s caused a disturbance of the Cape colonial boundary, leading to five border wars before the British conquered them in 1847.
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Acceptance of missionaries and mission stations, however, did not mean that the chiefs were prepared to accept Christianity or to acknowledge missionary authority in any way.
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desire to genuinely serve humanity and bring about material and social changes which would improve its quality of life.
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The main purpose of European missionaries in Southern Africa, to improve the standard of living and the reduction of poverty.
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involvement in local agriculture, irrigation and technology which, being environmental and hence independent of larger cultural issues, found a small measure of acceptance in rural society
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impose an alien morality and work ethos upon the local people without realising that these undermined their most basic social and cultural tenets and were therefore largely resisted
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Missionary Successes and Negro Converts.pdf - 1 views
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sulting in manufacturing the male converts into thieves and liars, and the female into prostitutes; secondly, that the Christian missionaries had entirely failed in making any real converts; leaving us the inference that the negro, owing to some hitherto unknown peculiarity, i
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Burnard Owen disagree to the argument made by Reade stating that Christian missionaries failed to convert negros, Owen provides the number of successes by the Christian missionaries to negros.
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We are also told the negroes have become industrious, and skilled so far in various trades, as masons, carpenters, tailors, blacksmiths, etc, that upwards of six hundred maintain themselves, "relieving the government from all expense on their personal account." Many of their heathenish customs have been forsaken ; " not an oath had been heard in the town for a twelvemonth, nor had any been seen drunk; attend? ance on public worship is regular and l
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The Report of the year 1822 is equally favourable. The Chief Justice of Sierra Leone, at the September quarter sessions, observed " That ten years ago, when the population was only 4000, forty cases were in the calendar for trial, now the population is upwards of 16,000, there are only six. It is remarkable that not a single case for trial is from any of the villages under the superintendence of a missionary or schoolmaster."|| At these quarter sessions some of the liberated Africans sat as jurors, "to the entire satisfaction of those concerned."^" The reports of the African Institution for 1821, 1822, and 18213, and other public documents, all speak favourably of the progress commercially and moral
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Efforts of Missionaries among Savages.pdf - 4 views
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men, I shall examine into those causes which choke the growth of Christianity
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Mr Reade argues on the failure of missioneries in converting Africans/negroes into Christians.
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No one will be rash enough, I presume, to say that God created these wretched creatures in order to punish them hereafter ; ancl I have already shown that Christian missions do not tend to elevate them in the moral scale.
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Reade argues that the missionaries didn't change negros to better people/ Christians however only worsened them.
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Mr. Dibley remarked, that it was generally agreed that the differ? ences of belief among Christian missionaries was a great cause of their failure
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The missioneries had different beliefs amongst themselves, they believed that one God is three, of which was a bloc to the success of converting negroes into Christians
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