: Elisabeth Engel
: Encountering Empire African American Missionaries in Colonial Africa, 1900-1939
: Franz Steiner Verlag
: 9783515111195
: Transatlantische Historische Studien
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In Encountering Empire,Elisabeth Engeltraces how black American missionaries - men and women grappling with their African heritage - established connections in Africa during the heyday of European colonialism. Reconstructing the black American 'colonial encounter,' Engel analyzes the images, transatlantic relationships, and possibilities of representation African American missionaries developed for themselves while negotiating colonial regimes. Between 1900 and 1939, these missionaries paved the way for the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest independent black American institution, to establish a presence in Britain's sub-Saharan colonies. Illuminating a neglected chapter of Atlantic history, Engel demonstrates that African Americans used imperial structures for their own self-determination.Encount ring Empire thus challenges the notion that pan-Africanism was the only viable strategy for black emancipation.

Winne of the Franz Steiner Prize in Transatlantic History 2015.
Contents6
Acknowledgments10
List of Abbreviations14
List of Illustrations15
1. Introduction18
1.1. Encountering Empire: An African American History18
1.2. Perspectives on the Afro-colonial Contact Zone: Christian Missions, African American Transnationalism, and Colonial Africa27
1.3. Reconceiving African American (Anti)colonialism: Method, Sources, and Structure41
Part I. Encountering Colonial Africa: African American Missionaries and the ‘Dark Continent’52
2. What’s in a Name: The AME Church and Missions to Africa58
2.1. The Church of Allen and African Methodism58
2.2. Missionary Traditions in the United States62
2.3. Missionary Traditions in the AME Church65
2.4. The Formation of AME Missionary Structures67
3. Moving onto the Imperial Stage: Colonial Africa and the Self-fashioning of African American Missionaries73
3.1. The Pioneers of Black Autoethnography73
3.2. “But to See Africa in Africa Is Another Thing”: Empiricism and Introspection on the Colonial Frontier81
3.3. “Views Fortified by Experience”: Passing on the System of Confession95
4. African American Missionaries at Home: Colonial Africa and the Black Metropole103
4.1. African American Missionaries at Home103
4.2. Manifest Black Male Domesticity: Institutional Reconfigurations115
4.3. Managing Black Atlantic Missionary Connections at Home: The AME Church Missionary Department123
4.4. Coming Home to Harlem: The New Home of Missions in the Black American Community129
Part II. Encountering the World: The ‘American Negro’ and the Ecumenical Missionary Movement140
5. “For the Field Is the World”: The Formation of the Ecumenical Missionary Movement147
5.1. The Theory and Practice of Ecumenism147
5.2. The IMC, Indigenization, and the Race Problem152
6. Moving onto the Ecumenical Stage: The AME Church and Ecumenism160
6.1. “A United Front”: The Formation of Black Ecumenism160
6.2. “God’s Last Reserve”: The AME Church’s Ecumenical Self-representation165
6.3. The AME Church’s Ecumenical Africa Mission and the IMC170
7. The ‘American Negro’ and Africa: Blackening the South Atlantic175
7.1. Indigenizing Black Christianity in the South Atlantic175
7.2. The Search for Alternative Paths to Civilization: Black and White Missionaries View the ‘American Negro’180
7.3. Paving the Way to Colonial Africa: The ‘American Negro’ Missionary, the IMC, and the British Empire184
Part III. Encountering the Colonial Subject: African American Missionaries and the ‘Natives’192
8. Meeting the ‘Native’: Black Missionary Self-fashioning in Colonial Everyday Life198
8.1. The Native Question in Indirect-rule Africa198
8.2. The AME Church and the Native Question201
8.3. Moving into Empire: The Construction of the Nonnative Black Missionary203
8.4. Of ‘Natives’’ Sisters and Brothers: AME Missionaries and the ‘American Negro’217
9. Moving into the Colonial System: AME Institutions in Colonial Africa230
9.1. The African AME Church230
9.2. The Postwar Debate About New Africa235
9.3. Gaining Ground: The ‘Native’ Worker and Colonial Education in Sierra Leone243
9.4. The Outlook of the Afro-colonial Liaison257
10. Afro-colonial Encounters: An Entangled History of African Colonization and African American Emancipation263
10.1. Pan-Africanism, the Absence of Empire, and the Silencing of Africa263
10.2. The AME Church and Postcolonial Africa268
10.3. Beginning African American Postcoloniality272
11. Works Cited276
Index298