TY - JOUR
AU - Drescher, Seymour
AB - 438 Reviews of Books ruptured Methodist ranks, but in America, divisions Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century. Grant over slavery and race rent the church. argues that this principle was the repository of colonial Yet despite challenges from within and without, humanitarian politics until the end of the eighteenth Methodism prospered throughout the nineteenth cen- century. The relationship of “trusteeship” to the “new tury in the British Isles and Canada. And in the United slaveries” before the outbreak of the Great War is not States, it boomed, emerging as the largest Protestant entirely clear. Trusteeship appears to have been uncon- denomination by the eve of the Civil War. Beyond that, nected with any major variant of overseas antislavery or energetic missionary endeavors launched from both unfree labor before the 1780s. Moreover, two of this North America and the British Isles gathered more study’s examples of British humanitarian targets—the than thirty million people on six continents into the Congo Free State and Portuguese West Africa—were Methodist fold by the end of the nineteenth century. located outside the empire. Nor is trusteeship clearly Hempton’s cogent and exhaustive overview of Meth- linked to the third case: post-Boer War Transvaal. In odist missionary 
TI - Kevin Grant. A Civilised Savagery: Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884–1926. New York: Routledge. 2005. Pp. xii, 223. $22.95.
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr.111.2.438
DA - 2006-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/kevin-grant-a-civilised-savagery-britain-and-the-new-slaveries-in-Kn8tQvisG0
SP - 438
EP - 439
VL - 111
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -