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Silent No Longer
Author(s) -
Cruchley Peter
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the ecumenical review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.104
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1758-6623
pISSN - 0013-0796
DOI - 10.1111/erev.12490
Subject(s) - emancipation , silence , racism , hierarchy , descendant , perspective (graphical) , gender studies , sociology , empire , work (physics) , white (mutation) , political science , race (biology) , law , politics , aesthetics , engineering , art , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , astronomy , visual arts , gene
This article, arising from the work of the Council for World Mission's Legacies of Slavery project, investigates the historical roots of racism present in the work of the London Missionary Society (LMS). It offers an analysis of the ways in which a missionary society colluded with Empire in constructing a racist hierarchy that it imposed on White people at home in the United Kingdom as much as it did on African and African descendant peoples. It acknowledges the personal and structural benefits that the LMS and its officers made from enslavement and their efforts to silence calls for emancipation, and offers a class and gender perspective on the forces shaping this distinctively British organization.