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Title: The people of Africa. A series of papers on their character, condition, and future prospects
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Schieffelin, Henry M Blyden, Edward Wilmot, 1832-1912 Lewis, Tayler, 1802-1877 Dwight, Theodore, 1796-1866
Subjects: Blacks Indigenous peoples
Publisher: New York, A.D.F. Randolph & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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the fetishes, gree-grees, and human saciifices of pagan, homicidal Africabe deprecated. It will bring up the civilization of thebarbarous negro races to a certain degree of civiliza-tion, and thus it will concur with Christianity, whichis now invading Africa from the West, in suppressingtheir inhuman practices. The Arabic Bible is eagerlysought. Let therefore the Gospel be disseminated inArabic characters, into whatever languages the piouszeal of Missionaries may be able to translate it, sinceArabic letters have for centuries been introduced intoAfrica and have become familiarized by use. On this subject Sir Powel Buxton says: There arepoints in tlie Mohammedan faith which we may turnto account in attempting to introduce better instruc-tion. The Mussulmans of the West do not regardChristians with the same horror as those of the East;they seem to be favorably impressed by finding thatwe acknowledge much of their own sacred history;and with them the names of Abraham and Moses serve p I
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