POLS 3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Role Of Christianity In Civilization, Basil Davidson
10 Oct 2016
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These places were created as refuges for recaptured african slaves. Britain used its strong navy to capture slave ships and return them to sierra leone and. Liberia, even though these places may not have been the slave"s country of origin. Basil davidson on africa and the recaptured slaves. It was not just europeans that argued in favour of the nation state, some africans did too because: Recaptured slaves, according to davidson, came to see themselves as agents of. Christian civilization. they were in many respects pro-colonial . Slaves were sold into slavery by their fellow africans but the british liberated them so they began to see the british as enlightened and respected the ways that they governed themselves. They saw their own african identity as savage so they debated whether to use the european model to rule the continent or use indigenous traditional methods. African leaders were being told that progress meant that progress meant what was.
