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Past PHS LIVE: The Careers of Alonzo and Althea Brown Edmiston

February 11, 2021

On February 4, Dr. Kimberly D. Hill joined PHS Executive Director Nancy Taylor for a conversation about her new book, A Higher Mission: The Careers of Alonzo and Althea Brown Edmiston in Central Africa.

The Edmistons joined the American Presbyterian Congo Mission in the early twentieth century and served into the 1930s. They were part of the Black Missionary Movement at the turn of the century that grew out of newly established Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in...

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Kristen

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Congo, African American History, Mission History, Missionaries, PHS Live

Congo Love Song

July 8, 2019

--by Ira Dworkin

I first visited the Presbyterian Historical Society (PHS) in Montreat, North Carolina, in 2002 when I began working on Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State. The Montreat branch is now closed, but most of its holdings are at PHS in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, including the papers of the ...

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Guest Blogger

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Scholar Research, Mission History, Congo, African American History

Processing the Edmiston Papers

June 2, 2015

Processing is one of the most important and enjoyable tasks we do as archivists--arranging, describing, and properly storing the papers of an individual or family or the records of an organization according to archival standards. For one week this year, I processed the personal papers collection of Alonzo Edmiston, a missionary to the American Presbyterian Congo Mission...

Author:

Lisa

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Mission History, Archival Processing, Congo, Collections, World History, African American History

Rubber Crimes: Sheppard and Morrison Versus the Kasai Rubber Company

March 14, 2012

The Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, was to impact the Congolese region of Africa irrevocably. Major European imperialist powers, including France, Portugal, England, and Belgium, had laid claim to Congolese land and resources in the larger context of the “Scramble for Africa” during the height of the colonial period. The General Berlin Act of February 1885, led to King Leopold II of Belgium taking personal control of the Congo, provided that Belgium assume responsibility for the “protection of the natives” and “help in suppressing slavery.”...

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Congo, Mission History, William Sheppard, Collections, World History

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Past PHS LIVE: The Careers of Alonzo and Althea Brown Edmiston

Congo Love Song

Processing the Edmiston Papers

Rubber Crimes: Sheppard and Morrison Versus the Kasai Rubber Company