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A Higher Mission
The Careers of Alonzo and Althea Brown Edmiston in Central Africa
From 1902 through 1941, the Edmistons designed their mission projects to promote community building, to value local resources, and to incorporate the perspectives of the African participants. They focused on childcare, teaching, translation, construction, and farming—ministries that required constant communication with their Kuba neighbors. Hill concludes with an analysis of how the Edmistons' pedagogy influenced government-sponsored industrial schools in the Belgian Congo through the 1950s.
A Higher Mission illuminates not only the work of African American missionaries—who are often overlooked and under-studied—but also the transnational implications of black education in the South. Significantly, Hill also addresses the role of black foreign missionaries in the early civil rights movement, an argument that suggests an underexamined connection between earlier nineteenth-century Pan-Africanisms and activism in the interwar era.
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"This book explores the missionary careers of the Edmistons, one of the most famous African American missionary couples in American history. With nuance and sensitivity, Kimberly Hill uncovers how the Edmistons were caught between racism in America and imperialism in Congo, and between industrial education and intellectual qualifications as competing visions. Their faithfulness and perseverance in the face of racial prejudice testifies to the enduring importance of African American mission history. I highly recommend this fine study."—Dana L. Robert, Truman Collins professor of World Christianity and History of Mission at Boston University and editor of African Christian Biography: Stories, Lives, and Challenges
"Richly instructive and rigorously researched, A Higher Mission is an important addition to the historiography of US mission work in colonial Africa."—Christopher Tounsel, Associate Professor of History, University of Washington
"In A Higher Mission, Kimberly D. Hill deftly tells the remarkable story of one Black missionary couple who survived the purge and struggled, over the course of more than three decades, to negotiate the challenges posed by White Presbyterian leadership that was increasingly committed to upholding racist colonial policy....(It) succeeds in mining archival sources to document the multiple, often conflicted, legacies of not only the Edmistons but also the APCM (American Presbyterian Congo Mission) and the wider field of African American missionaries in colonial Africa."—Journal of African American History
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