Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Language and Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Rethinking Missions as Places of Work -- 1 Missionary Authority in Late Precolonial Magila, 1867-87 -- 2 Building the Slave Market Church in Zanzibar, 1864-1900 -- 3 Slave Status and the Mission Boys' School in Zanzibar, 1864-c.1930 -- 4 Raising 'Mbweni Girls' in Zanzibar, 1864-c.1926 -- 5 Domestic Service in Magila and Zanzibar, 1864-c.1930 -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Chronology of UMCA Founding -- Appendix 2: General Chronology for Zanzibar and Magila -- Appendix 3: African Power-brokers and the Mission Elite -- Appendix 4: Bishops of the UMCA -- Appendix 5: Other Significant UMCA Missionaries -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Important and broadening study of the way Africans engaged with missions, not as beneficiaries of humanitarian philanthropy, but as workers
