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Abolitionist Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa, by Lamin Sanneh

2023-04-03 13:37:53

Lamin Sanneh's book, "Abolishment Abroad: African Americans and Modern West Africa", focuses on attempts to free slaves in West Africa to build a new society based on anti-slavery and anti-structural ideas. Sanneh explained that the abolition movement affects not only the United States but also Europe and Africa. He detailed the role of certain Africans in anti-slavery movement. This book has many negative attributes, but overall it is not good. There are several advantages.

Rodney Stark advocates the discussion of "the glory of God: how monotheism leads to reform, the end of science, magic, and slavery". Sanee also applies to foreign abolished people. The authors point out that Christians who regard slavery as a false religion based on religious beliefs are the first people to abolish the abolitionism. Opinion Except God

European and African black abolishists support the end of slave trade and the spread of Christianity. "Slave Christianism" was used to strengthen slavery, but there are many black voices discussing this position, such as Daniel Cork, Richard Allen, George Born. Briefly, Africans in the New World simply accept the oppressor's religion, ignoring black agents and other factors that make blacks follow Christ. The black church continues today, although it is not perfect, I am still trying not to be recorded, but a good news carrier

In 1836, the abolitionist Robert Benjamin Lewis published a book described by black as the first black history: light and truth: in 1841, collected from the Bible and the ancient and contemporary history, including colored people The universal history of the species from the creation of the modern world and the Indian race followed the JWC Pennington 's "Colored Origin and History Textbook", a slave who escaped. In 1855, another black abolishist William Neil wrote the "patriot of the American Revolution". William Wells Brown wrote the first black American novel, a drama and travel book, and in 1863 he created his achievement as "Black Man: His predecessor, his genius", followed by the American rebel Blacks . : His heroism and his loyalty (1867) and emerging son; or cause and progress of colored race (1874)