The Issue of Slavery: Relations between the CMS and the State on the East African Coast Prior to 1895

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Title:	The Issue of Slavery: Relations between the CMS and the State on the East African Coast Prior to 1895
Author:	Githige, Renison Muchiri
Year:	1986
Periodical:	Journal of Religion in Africa
Volume:	16
Issue:	3
Period:	October
Pages:	209-225
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	East Africa Great Britain
Subjects:	missions colonialism abolition of slavery History and Exploration Religion and Witchcraft
Abbreviation:	CMS=Church Missionary Society
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1581287.pdf
Abstract:	The Church Missionary Society (CMS) started working on the East African coast in the 1840s. The missionaries operated by permission of the Sultan of Zanzibar, the Sultan himself being influenced by the British consul. Although the work of the CMS was not directed to freed slaves, by the 1870s the mission came te realize that the success of its work depended on freed slaves. Freed-slave centres were established on the coast with direct assistance from the British navy and consul, who delivered captured slaves to the mission's settlements. The development of these freed-slave centres had deep repercussions on the consul's diplomatic relations with the Sultan, because of their potential for generating friction with the Arab slave owners. Relations between the CMS and the Imperial British East Africa Company, formed in 1888, were strained because of their different attitudes to the issue of slavery. Note, ref.