Book contents
- Visions for Racial Equality
- Visions for Racial Equality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Maps
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Among the Wild Scotsmen
- 3 Champagne and Slaves
- 4 The Universal Vernacular
- 5 Frightful Libel upon Humanity
- 6 Rhodes Must Not Rise
- 7 A Future Foreclosed
- 8 Grief Never Wears Out
- 9 Liberal Translations
- 10 The Rest Is History
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Champagne and Slaves
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2022
- Visions for Racial Equality
- Visions for Racial Equality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Maps
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Among the Wild Scotsmen
- 3 Champagne and Slaves
- 4 The Universal Vernacular
- 5 Frightful Libel upon Humanity
- 6 Rhodes Must Not Rise
- 7 A Future Foreclosed
- 8 Grief Never Wears Out
- 9 Liberal Translations
- 10 The Rest Is History
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
David Clement Scott arrived in 1881 to re-establish the Blantyre Mission. His personal experiences of Africans carrying out responsibilities, of people fleeing slavery and abusive masters and of well-spoken deliberations in chiefly courts all became deeply formative. Already a year after his arrival, Scott was drafting original reflections on how the curse of Ham, conventionally thought to impair the Black race, could be better interpreted to demand reversals in race relations. William Koyi, a South African sent to Malawi from the Lovedale Missionary Institute in the Eastern Cape, provided Scott with one of his early inspirations to elaborate on friendship as both a vernacular and Christian idiom. The concept of chief (mfumu) also inspired him to reflect on political power and the missionaries’ role in Africa. Scott learned principles of deliberation and diplomacy by attending mlandu hearings in chiefs’ courts.
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- Visions for Racial EqualityDavid Clement Scott and the Struggle for Justice in Nineteenth-Century Malawi, pp. 52 - 75Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022