“A friend of god and the poor wretched blacks”: violence, race, and redemption in missionary narratives of Nile Valley slavery

This article explores narratives of slavery written by Christian missionaries in the Nile Valley in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on works produced by the Italian Comboni mission, American Presbyterians, and the British Church Missionary Society, I approach missionary n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bland, W
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Penn State University Press 2022