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...colonial times most missionaries tried to steer clear of direct politics, though it was Missionary David Livingstone who crusaded to close down the Arab slave trade in Zanzibar. But today Christian churches are deeply involved -partly because governments either attack them or need their help, partly because some missionaries are heavily radicalized and have rallied not only to preserve the right to worship but to protect black Africans from the new injustices visited on them by oppressive regimes, black and white...
...transcendent" achievement in his much admired short story "The Bear" leads nowhere. Isaac, the fatherless heir, who analyzes his past by plodding through his grandfather's ledgers and talking it out--shrink/client style--with his uncle, recollects his past and so avoids repeating its mistakes. He renounces his slave and plantation holdings and becomes, with Faulkner's sledgehammer Christian symbolist touches, a carpenter. But Isaac is childless and lacks collective vision anyway, as King observes, "to become the founder himself and to pass on this moral (or aesthetic) vision to anyone else...
...department needs two historians," Patterson said, adding Huggins is an "excellent" start, but he is a "generalist." Genovese, a specialist in slave history and knowledgeable in the Black experience in Latin America, would add "needed depth," he said...
...Studies. Professor Genovese is simply one of the several most innovative and profound scholars in the field of Afro-American Studies, having captured the most coveted prize in American history--the Bancroft Prize (1975) of the American Historical Association--for his monumental work, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1974). And equally creative is his most recent work, From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World (1979). I might add that Professor Genovese is a brilliant teacher, dedicated to undergraduate education and to serving students' needs. Both as scholar and teacher...
...country was long one of the most stable in black Africa, there was increasing dissatisfaction with Tolbert's autocratic ways and with the corruption and inefficiency of his top-heavy bureaucracy. Perhaps most resented was the dominance of the so-called Americo-Liberians, descendants of the freed American slaves who began settling on the western Guinea coast in 1822. Though the vast majority of the country's 1.7 million people are impoverished tribal Africans, most of the political power and wealth have traditionally been controlled by the "settlers," the Americo-Liberians. Tolbert's father was a former...