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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.
Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women
celebrates women's histories in the Yellowhammer State by
highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our
understanding of the past and present. Exploring such subjects as
politics, arts, and civic organizations, this collection of
eighteen biographical essays provides a window into the social,
cultural, and geographic milieux of women's lives in Alabama.
Featured individuals include Augusta Evans Wilson, Maria Fearing,
Julia S. Tutwiler, Margaret Murray Washington, Pattie Ru ner
Jacobs, Ida E. Brandon Mathis, Ruby Pickens Tartt, Zelda Sayre
Fitzgerald, Sara Martin May eld, Bess Bolden Walcott, Virginia
Foster Durr, Rosa Parks, Lurleen Burns Wallace, Margaret Charles
Smith, and Harper Lee.
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Alabama Women - Their Lives and Times (Paperback)
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Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women
celebrates women's histories in the Yellowhammer State by
highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our
understanding of the past and present. Exploring such subjects as
politics, arts, and civic organizations, this collection of
eighteen biographical essays provides a window into the social,
cultural, and geographic milieux of women's lives in Alabama.
Featured individuals include Augusta Evans Wilson, Maria Fearing,
Julia S. Tutwiler, Margaret Murray Washington, Pattie Ru ner
Jacobs, Ida E. Brandon Mathis, Ruby Pickens Tartt, Zelda Sayre
Fitzgerald, Sara Martin May eld, Bess Bolden Walcott, Virginia
Foster Durr, Rosa Parks, Lurleen Burns Wallace, Margaret Charles
Smith, and Harper Lee.
Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora considers how, in
areas as diverse as the New Hebrides, Scotland, the United States,
and East Central Africa, men's and women's shared Presbyterian
faith conditioned their interpretations of and interactions with
the institution of chattel slavery. The chapters highlight how
Presbyterians' reactions to slavery -which ranged from
abolitionism, to indifference, to support-reflected their
considered application of the principles of the Reformed Tradition
to the institution. Consequently, this collection reveals how the
particular ways in which Presbyterians framed the Reformed
Tradition made slavery an especially problematic and fraught issue
for adherents to the faith. Faith and Slavery, by situating slavery
at the nexus of Presbyterian theology and practice, offers a fresh
perspective on the relationship between religion and slavery. It
reverses the all too common assumption that religion primarily
served to buttress existing views on slavery, by illustrating how
groups' and individuals reactions to slavery emerged from their
understanding of the Presbyterian faith. The collection's
geographic reach-encompassing the experiences of people from
Europe, Africa, America, and the Pacific-filtered through the lens
of Presbyterianism also highlights the global dimensions of slavery
and the debates surrounding it. The institution and the challenges
it presented, Faith and Slavery stresses, reflected less the
peculiar conditions of a particular place and time, than the
broader human condition as people attempt to understand and shape
their world.
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