Pacification with the Maroon Negroes

Pacification with the Maroon Negroes

Pacification with the Maroon Negroes

Missionizing paved a path to the pacification of the colonized in which they were made promises with treaties never kept. At the same time, their land and sustenance was confiscated and their spiritual authority and defensive powers, neutralized. In Zimbabwe and in Jamaica, as everywhere in the colonial empire, the success of their conquest was applauded by religious organizations like the London Missionary Society. It was assumed that only by destroying the colonized societies that the survivors would be amenable to pacification and Christian conversion.

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