“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...
Main Author: | Bland, W |
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Penn State University Press
2022
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