American Presbyterian Missionaries, Enslavement, and Anti-Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Gabon
When American Presbyterian and Congregationalist missionaries arrived in the Gabon Estuary in the 1840s, they entered a world marked by vibrant commerce; violence and inequality; widespread slavery and slave-trading; British, French, and U.S. Anti-Slavery Patrols; and incipient French colonialism. T...
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
Journals Online & Print: | |
Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
Published: |
Brill
2013
|
In: |
Social sciences and missions
Year: 2013, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 93-122 |
Further subjects: | B
Presbyterian missionaries
slavery and anti-slavery
U.S. Civil War
Gabon
colonialism
Corisco
Liberia
B missionnaires presbytériens esclavage et lutte contre l’esclavage guerre civile américaine Gabon colonialisme Corisco Liberia |
Online Access: |
Volltext (Verlag) |