Missionaries

Danielle Mustin

__Missionaries__ - a people sent on a religious mission, esp. ones sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country


 * They were involved in setting the scene for colonists before they started arriving. Missionaries were used by the colonial power as an //avant garde//, to expand into new regions.
 * Missionaries were the first Europeans who many Nigerians came in contact with.
 * The missionaries abolished the slave trade.
 * They took the focus away from the human products of Nigeria in order to use the natural resources more fully.
 * They also wanted to promote a healthier and more mutually favorable trade between Europe and Africa.
 * There was both a religious and commercial goals to all work by missionaries.
 * The commercial side was more important than the religious, due the urgent need to find a quick replacement for trading slaves. This way the traders would not feel their profit was at stake.
 * They shared the gospel of Jesus and explained the his life. The purpose was is to evangelize, discover and teach new ideas.
 * In 1841, a white men invaded Igboland as missionaries, administrators and traders.

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 * Mission Christians and colonists banded together to increase the spread of these ideas. The Church Missionary Society and Catholic Mission worked together to begin missions in Onitsha, in 1855 and 1857.

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