The Lucy Memorial Freed Slaves' Home: The Sudan United Mission and The British Colonial Government in Partnership

by Frank A. Salamone and Virginia A. Salamone

Fieldwork has been combined with archival research conducted in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Nigeria to explicate the manner in which the Sudan United Mission strove to create a Christian Northern Nigerian identity in order to combat a Muslim Hausa identity. To accomplish this transformation, the missionaries created a home for freed Nigerian slaves; it was named after Lucy Guinness Kumm, one of its founders. The story of the home and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761838910
• ISBN13: 9780761838913
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 8.9"