Date of Award:
12-2024
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Arts (MA)
Department:
History
Committee Chair(s)
Patrick Q. Mason
Committee
Patrick Q. Mason
Committee
Tammy M. Proctor
Committee
Christopher Conte
Abstract
In 1878, Henry Craven opened the first Protestant mission in the Congo. The Livingstone Inland Mission created multiple stations along the Congo River to reach the interior. It stayed active for six years before transferring its stations to Swedish and American missions. Five years after its closure, a sister mission, the Congo Balolo Mission, resumed efforts to teach the people living in the interior. This thesis explores the evolving reaction of the missionaries to state violence. It argues that these missionaries initially supported imperial violence that enforced laws that aligned with their beliefs, such as removing the slave trade. Once that violence extended to profits alone and increased in violence, the missionaries joined the movement to improve conditions in the Congo.
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Recommended Citation
Peterson, Ana, "God's Laborers: Missionary Work and Imperialism in the Congo From 1878-1908" (2024). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Fall 2023 to Present. 361.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd2023/361
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