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DESCRIPTION:Missionary Discourse and the Problem of Slavery in Histories of
  the African Great Lakes\n	\n	Dr. Philip Gooding\n	IOWC\, ÐãÉ«Ö±²¥\n	\n	This pape
 r takes a comparative approach to missionary documents that refer to slave
 ry in Buganda (northern Lake Victoria) and Ujiji (northern Lake Tanganyika
 ). Protestant missionaries of the Church and London Missionary Societies f
 ounded missions in these two locales in respectively 1877 and 1878. They a
 rrived with divergent preconceptions: of Buganda as having no internal str
 uctures of slavery\, and of Ujiji as being the centre of a regional slave 
 trade network dominated by ‘Arabs.’ However\, their impressions became inc
 reasingly intertwined over time. Initially\, they minimized the extent of 
 slavery in both locales\, perhaps partly to emphasize the feasibility of t
 heir missions. Thereafter\, though\, as they struggled to accomplish their
  goals\, such as in making their stations self-sufficient (Buganda) and in
  facilitating conversions (Ujiji)\, they developed a common discourse in b
 laming the existence of slavery for their shortcomings. This led them to b
 oth contradict earlier statements about labour and social relations and to
  overstate and oversimplify the role of slavery in both locales. The paper
  concludes by reflecting on this archival heritage and its implications fo
 r the growing historiographies of slavery in eastern Africa and bondage in
  the wider Indian Ocean World.\n
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LOCATION:Room 116\, Peterson Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0E6\, 3460 rue
  McTavish
SUMMARY:IOWC Winter Speaker Series - Dr. Philip Gooding
URL:/history/channels/event/iowc-winter-speaker-series
 -dr-philip-gooding-362845
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