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A Higher Mission - The Careers of Alonzo and Althea Brown Edmiston in Central Africa (Hardcover)
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A Higher Mission - The Careers of Alonzo and Althea Brown Edmiston in Central Africa (Hardcover)
Series: New Directions in Southern History
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In this vital transnational study, Kimberly D. Hill critically
analyzes the colonial history of central Africa through the
perspective of two African American missionaries: Alonzo Edmiston
and Althea Brown Edmiston. The pair met and fell in love while
working as a part of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission - an
operation which aimed to support the people of the Congo Free State
suffering forced labor and brutal abuses under Belgian colonial
governance. They discovered a unique kinship amid the country's
growing human rights movement and used their familiarity with
industrial education, popularized by Booker T. Washington's
Tuskegee Institute, as a way to promote Christianity and offer
valuable services to local people. From 1902 through 1941, the
Edmistons designed their mission projects to promote community
building, to value local resources, and to incorporate the
perspectives of the African participants. They focused on
childcare, teaching, translation, construction, and farming -
ministries that required constant communication with their Kuba
neighbors. Hill concludes with an analysis of how the Edmistons'
pedagogy influenced government-sponsored industrial schools in the
Belgian Congo through the 1950s. A Higher Education illuminates not
only the work of African American missionaries - who are often
overlooked and under-studied - but also the transnational
implications of black education in the South. Significantly, Hill
also addresses the role of black foreign missionaries in the early
civil rights movement, an argument that suggests an underexamined
connection between earlier nineteenth-century Pan-Africanisms and
activism in the interwar era.
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