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  • 43 - The “Hidden Transcripts” and Legal Rights of Slaves in the Muslim World

  • from Part Eight - Documents from Muslim Africa
  • Edited by Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, Cornell University, New York, Martin A. Klein, University of Toronto
  • Book:
    African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
    Published online:
    05 April 2013
    Print publication:
    13 May 2013, pp 503-510

  • Summary

    Missionary societies operating in mid-to late-nineteenth-century Africa sought first and foremost to convert African men and women to Christianity. Among the assumptions held by European missionaries was the inherent sinfulness of the long-standing universal institution of slavery and the practice of human sacrifice. Slavery remained a general phenomenon in mid- to late-nineteenth-century Africa and was widely condemned by missionary workers. European religious workers simply did not have the power to prohibit the continued existence of these practices in the communities where they worked. They were guests who could exhort and attempt to persuade, but they had little power to force their values upon their hosts. They did use the power of the pen to condemn these and other practices and to publicize their existence in publications read by audiences in Europe. Missionary records are especially useful for hearing the voices of the enslaved.