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...

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Main Author: Cinnamon, John M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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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
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