A Muslim slave was recommended as a Christian missionary to Africa
Evidence
I cannot persuade myself but that you will seize with avidity an instrument that appears so completely adapted to your wants. Is it impossible — is it improbable that ‘Abdul Rahahman may become the chief pioneer of civilization to unenlightened Africa—that, armed with the Bible, he may be the foremost of that band of pilgrims who shall roll back the mighty waves of darkness and superstition, and plant the cross of the Redeemer upon the furthermost mountains of Kong! — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 136
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Full assimilation in antebellum America demanded converting away from Islam; Nineteenth-century travelers credited Islam with civilizing enslaved Africans beyond Christianity’s reach — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 131; Europeans saw enslaved African Muslims as semicivilized aids for Christianizing other Africans (+1 more)