Africa and the American Negro [electronic resource] : addresses and proceedings of the Congress on Africa held under the auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition December 13-15, 1895 / edited by J.W.E. Bowen.
Discusses the political and cultural condition of Africa and the responsibility of African-Americans to perform missionary work in Africa. Covers the colonial partition of Africa and promotes the generally held view of the Congress's speakers that colonization provided an opportunity to promote Christianity and its civilizing influence in Africa.
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- Edition: Electronic edition
- Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001.
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- General Note:
- Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc. Images scanned by Meredith Evans. Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc., Elizabeth S. Wright and Jill Kuhn.This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The Church in the Southern Black community.Title from electronic title page.
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- Transcribed from: Africa and the American Negro : addresses and proceedings of the Congress on Africa held under the auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition December 13-15, 1895 / edited by Prof. J.W.E. Bowen, Ph. D., D.D., Secretary of the Congress. Atlanta : Gamon Theological Seminary, 1896. 243 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
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- Funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the electronic publication of this title.
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Discusses the political and cultural condition of Africa and the responsibility of African-Americans to perform missionary work in Africa. Covers the colonial partition of Africa and promotes the generally held view of the Congress's speakers that colonization provided an opportunity to promote Christianity and its civilizing influence in Africa.
