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| Title: | 'A Plantation of Religion': And the Enterprise Culture in Africa: History, Ex-Slaves and Religious Inevitability |
| Author: | Sanneh, Lamin |
| Year: | 1997 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Religion in Africa |
| Volume: | 27 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 15-49 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Sierra Leone |
| Subjects: | Christian theology missionary history slave trade abolition of slavery History and Exploration Religion and Witchcraft Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1581879 |
| Abstract: | This paper examines the Nova Scotian settlement in Sierra Leone, which began in 1792. The story of this settlement provides the basis for demonstrating a new, special religious view of history. Its immediate background is the American War of Independence, and, by implication, the development of republican forms of society and religion. The intellectual roots of this understanding of religion and society lay in the efforts of some significant Africans and their descendants in Europe and the New World. The history of the 18th-century American religious pioneers constitutes a turning point, a vital break with the medieval notion of Christendom and its imperial European adaptation. Its Puritan pedigree was the autodidact who would not be bound by customary formulas and hierarchical controls. The paper uses the lives of two ex-slaves, David George (born in about 1742), who landed in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in 1792, and Paul Cuffee (born in 1759), as an illustration. Cuffee's intention in going to West Africa was to establish a trading base at the source of the slave trade and work from there to undermine the slave traffic. He arrived in Freetown in 1816. Notes, ref. |
