Dec 24, 2009

Colonialism | Movement Variations

Missionary Writing
The work of Christianizing the “heathens” of the Third World was an important focus of Colonialism; some historians have suggested that the seemingly “compassionate” purpose of “saving” the darker races put a positive face on the aggression of imperialist policy. Some missionaries, however, felt that the blessings of “Christianity and commerce” were necessarily linked; the famous missionary and researcher David Livingstone was an advocate of this position. Missionary writing was very popular with readers back home, since it gave moral...