By Margaret Atwood, Marilyn French
ISBN-10: 1558616292
ISBN-13: 9781558616295
Compliment for the former volumes:
“French provides us grand thought at its most sensible. . . . hugely recommended.”—Library Journal
“Beautifully sourced and referenced. . . . jam-packed with interesting element and strong arguments . . . mammoth and valuable.”—Publishers Weekly
Writing approximately what she calls the “most cheering interval in lady history,” foreign best-selling writer Marilyn French recounts how 19th century girls dwelling less than imperialism, industrialization, and capitalism equipped for his or her personal schooling, a extra equitable salary, and the vote.
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In 1879 the CMS forbade Christians to own slaves. A minister who tried to enforce the rule was confronted by a group of Egba converts led by prominent women trader slave owners who declared that people would rather go into the interior with their slaves than remain without them. Local mission workers warned the CMS that p reaching against slavery could cause the widespread murder of white missionaries and the extirpation of Christianity in Africa. Ironically, of all African slave owners, both white and black, Christians treated their slaves most harshly and worked them hardest, insisting on the “Protestant ethic” of hard work.
Islam condoned slave ry, and Catholic missionaries in Oyo in the 1840s were divided about it; some deplored slavery, and some bought slaves or assisted the slave trade. But both groups challenged Yo ruba religion and social structure. The British too were equivocal. A decade after landing at Lagos in 1851, they decreed it a colony and themselves its rulers. As they moved further into the interior, they rarely protected black Christian communities from slave traders, but did send military excursions to stop slave exports, and in the 1880s and 1890s tried to stop them inland.
Many Europeans dealt only with men, thereby • 44 • IMPERIALISM IN AFRICA nullifying women’s power; they turned entire regions into predatory jungles where women were safe only if they were “owned” by a man. In the next phase of domination, the European states completed the patriarchization of the continent by imposing Western notions of property rights and law. But women continued to resist male supremacy, some through religion. Africa has a long tradition of female spiritual leadership. Women like Nzinga of Angola, Amina of Hausaland, Beatrice of Kongo, and Nehanda of Zimbabwe were spiritual leaders who had military or political skills.