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
8 - Grief Never Wears Out
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
Scott pursued his vision for the African Church with support from African deacons and chiefs and from his ‘clan’ of Scotsmen and -women at the Mission – people related to him through kinship and marriage. Deaths at the Mission in the 1890s contributed to the end of Scott’s vision. The deaths of Scott’s brother, brother-in-law and wife were mourned by Africans around the Mission, and their funerals followed African traditions. After Blantyre, Scott moved to the Kikuyu Mission in Kenya, where he failed to pursue a vision similar to the one in Malawi. His attempt at financial independence through commercial agriculture did not succeed, while his command of the Gikuyu language never approached the depth of his Chimang’anja. Scott’s funeral in Kenya was attended by a large number of Europeans and Africans. In Blantyre, he had suffered a social death due to his absence.
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- Visions for Racial EqualityDavid Clement Scott and the Struggle for Justice in Nineteenth-Century Malawi, pp. 201 - 232Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022