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'The Slave Trade of East Africa.' [‎86] (95/108)

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In 1845 a Mission was sent to the Yoruba country. A chief
town—Abeokuta—was occupied^ and the Gospel has since
radiated from thence to many of the large towns in the sur
rounding district. Tn 1857 a Niger Mission was established,
conducted wholly by native African clergymen and laymen, them
selves the fruit of the missionary labours of a past generation,
and it is now under the care of Bishop Crowther, the first native
Bishop of the West African Church, a missionary of no ordinary
ability—a living wonder to those who once so vauntingly denied
the capability of elevating the native African races, and would
fain have extinguished the zeal of their Christian friends in
England.
The practical conclusion to which we now come is that the
efforts of our own Government to suppress the East Coast Slave
Trade, afford an opportunity for the evangelisation of portions of
the East Coast tribes, similar to that so successfully embraced
by the Church Missionary and other Missionary Societies at
Sierra Leone, and with hopes of similar success, provided only
that a Sierra Leone can be reproduced upon the East Coast.
This is a most important point, for without some such depot,
possessing the advantages of Sierra Leone, no combined
Missionary effort can be made. Although the labours of a
Missionary Society would be properly employed in teaching and
preaching to the heathen negro wherever they may find him,
yet the work should in this case, if possible, be initiated under
conditions which point to the destruction of the Slave Trade as the
result of their own development. Dr. Livingstone observes the
moral degradation which an indulgence in the traffic produces
in those tribes who collect slaves for the dealers; and on the
other hand we may lay it down as a truth, that the spread among
or in the vicinity of those tribes of an intelligent industry, and
an acquaintance with the higher standards of civilisation, must
aid in repressing their tendency to engage in this traffic.
Now to bring these things to bear, what so effectual as the
presence among those tribes of a native agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , instructed not
only as to the principles of civilisation, but teachers of Gospel
truth. It therefore seems a condition necessary to the success
of ibe suggested scheme, that the spot chosen for its commence-

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The Slave Trade of East Africa.

Author: Edward Hutchinson, F.R.G.S., F.S.A. (Lay Secretary, Church Missionary Society).

Publication details: London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, Crown Buildings, 188 Fleet Street, E.C.

Physical Description: 1 map; octavo.

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1 volume (96 pages)
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This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references.

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Dimensions: 220mm x 140mm

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