Britain and the Ending of the Slave Trade

Miller, Joseph C.; Miers, Suzanne

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“…63 Given the Berlin Conference's role in the 'scramble for Africa', Suzanne Miers's analysis of the Brussels Conference as another stage in this process seems appropriate. 64 Anti-slavery activists welcomed the Brussels Conference. The Belgian antislavery periodical Le Mouvement Antiesclavagiste took one of the side events -a reception for the British explorer Henry Morgan Stanley -as a launch pad to celebrate this international initiative:…”

Section: Anti-slavery and Empirementioning

confidence: 99%

“…King Leopold, for instance, appointed the infamous slavetrader Tippu Tip as Governor of the Upper Congo, since the latter's support was deemed important for colonial rule in the region. 152 Such episodes should warn us against assuming a simple East-West dichotomy when it comes to civilisational discourse. Significantly, in the years when some anti-slavery activists couched their cause in anti-Islamic terms, British humanitarians also criticised the actions of a Catholic power (namely Portugal) and of Calvinists (namely Afrikaners).…”

Section: Anti-slavery and The Civilising Missionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Tensions of Internationalism: Transnational Anti-Slavery in the 1880s and 1890s

Laqua¹

2011

The International History Review

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In 1888 Cardinal Lavigerie, the Archbishop of Algiers and Carthage, launched his 'anti-slavery crusade'. Drawing attention to slave raids in Africa and to the East African slave trade, this initiative resulted in the foundation of several new antislavery associations. Many of them maintained close connections to Catholic politics and missionaries, yet also co-operated with two older -and predominantly Protestant -groups in Britain: the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (BFAS) and the Aborigines' Protection Society (APS). By stressing how anti-slavery associations collaborated through international congresses and periodicals, the article traces the emergence of a new anti-slavery internationalism in the 1880s and 1890s. It discusses the transnational context of such activism and highlights the shared language developed by its protagonists. However, the timing of these efforts makes its necessary to consider the relationship between humanitarianism and the 'new imperialism' of this period -a connection that was reflected in diplomatic events such as the Brussels Conference of 1889-90. Anti-slavery discourse fed into notions of a 'civilising mission' which seemed to legitimise imperial expansion. Portrayals that contrasted the actions of Western powers with those of so-called 'Arab' slave-traders (a term which Europeans also applied to African Muslims) were one element of this discourse.

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Section: Anti-slavery and Empirementioning

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Section: Anti-slavery and The Civilising Missionmentioning

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The Tensions of Internationalism: Transnational Anti-Slavery in the 1880s and 1890s

Laqua¹

2011

The International History Review

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“…This was a rase; officials did not want to rain the economy or be saddled with a large population of fugitive slaves, although the Brussels Act bound signatories to repatriate or rehabilitate freed slaves in suitable locations near European stations. 30 The Native House Rule Proclamation of 1903, rather than free slaves, confined them to the houses to which they belonged.…”

Section: Labour Crisis and The Last Of The Pre-colonial Igbo Entreprementioning

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‘When slaves left, owners wept’: Entrepreneurs and emancipation among the igbo people

Ohadike

1998

Slavery & Abolition

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“…47 There was said to be a constant a pool of slave day-labourers available in particular spots in urban Zanzibar waiting for employers and Europeans did not necessarilyor at least not initiallyrealise that they were hire-slaves. 48 It was common for all kinds of foreigners to recruit slaves; Europeans, Indians and Americans hired them as domestic servants, soldiers and porters. 49 According to Captain H.…”

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African workers and the Universities' Mission to Central Africa in Zanzibar, 1864–1900

Liebst

2014

Journal of Eastern African Studies

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This research paper explores the connections between African workers and Christian missions in late nineteenth century Zanzibar, focusing on the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA), a High-Church Anglican missionary society. Procuring and managing labour was central to the everyday lives of Christian mission societies because missionaries demanded a range of skilled and unskilled workersincluding builders, cooks, waterfetchers, porters and servantsin order to establish an ideal setting for the core aims: the conversion of souls and establishment of an African ministry. The missionaries constantly veered between submitting to local customs and conditions and imposing their own ideals of what they felt to be the proper management and division of labour. A good example of this was their employment of slaves, a practice that was not always illegal for British subjects and particularly widespread amongst explorers in need of porters. At the same time, the missionaries often had to abandon their belief that they must not exercise formal authority outside of the main nucleus of the clergy as they managed their labour forces and attempted to reform freed slaves into (ideally skilled) free wageworkers. These issues bear on how historians understand the tensions between conversion, cultural adaption, industrialisation and capitalism but it also says something of the role of missionaries and Christian Africans as cultural brokers between the mission economies and the local economies they interacted with. This article addresses the missionaries' employment of hire slaves, the attempts to establish Christian working communities and the use of household labour with regards to women and children.

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Britain and the Ending of the Slave Trade

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The Tensions of Internationalism: Transnational Anti-Slavery in the 1880s and 1890s

The Tensions of Internationalism: Transnational Anti-Slavery in the 1880s and 1890s

‘When slaves left, owners wept’: Entrepreneurs and emancipation among the igbo people

African workers and the Universities' Mission to Central Africa in Zanzibar, 1864–1900

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