Labour and Christianity in the Mission: African Workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864-1926

Michelle Liebst

doi:10.1017/9781800102859

Labour and Christianity in the Mission

African Workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864-1926

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Michelle Liebst, University College London

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: September 2022
Print publication year:: 2021
Online ISBN:: 9781800102859
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781800102859

Series:: Religion in Transforming Africa
Subjects:: Religion, Religion: General Interest

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Important and broadening study of the way Africans engaged with missions, not as beneficiaries of humanitarian philanthropy, but as workers.

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Labour and Christianity in the Mission

African Workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864-1926

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Illustrations
pp vii-viii

List of Abbreviations
pp ix-x

Note on Language and Glossary
pp xi-xii

Acknowledgements
pp xiii-xiv

Introduction: Rethinking Missions as Places of Work
pp 1-32

1 - Missionary Authority in Late Precolonial Magila, 1867–87
pp 33-74

2 - Building the Slave Market Church in Zanzibar, 1864–1900
pp 75-100

3 - Slave Status and the Mission Boys’ School in Zanzibar, 1864–c.1930
pp 101-126

4 - Raising ‘Mbweni Girls’ in Zanzibar, 1864–c.1926
pp 127-146

5 - Domestic Service in Magila and Zanzibar, 1864–c.1930
pp 147-182

Conclusion
pp 183-190

Appendix 1 - Chronology of UMCA Founding
pp 191-191

Appendix 2 - General Chronology for Zanzibar and Magila
pp 192-192

Appendix 3 - African Power-brokers and the Mission Elite
pp 192-193

Appendix 4 - Bishops of the UMCA
pp 193-193

Appendix 5 - Other Significant UMCA Missionaries
pp 193-194

Bibliography
pp 195-218

Index
pp 219-224

Previously Published Titles in the Series
pp 225-225

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