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oapen-20.500.12657-747892023-08-03T14:56:58Z Da «selvaggi» a «moretti» Ghedini, Giacomo «Moretti» Afro-Europeans Missions Slavery Colonialism bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History During the 19th Century, more than 2000 children of sub-Saharan origin were redeemed from slavery by missionaries and educated in Europe with the aim of sending them back to Africa as «indigenous missionaries». Yet, so far this phenomenon has found no place in historiography and collective memory. Forgotten, perhaps, or removed. The so-called «moretti» were not mere anonymous satellites, orbiting around the European missionaries. Victims of the choices of others, but also protagonists according their own choices, they were real «agents of history». This book is a first attempt to remove them from the peripheries of our narratives and to return them a place and a name. The archives show it clearly: African-Europeans are far from being just recent actors of European history. 2023-08-03T14:56:56Z 2023-08-03T14:56:56Z 2023 book ONIX_20230803_9791221500790_8 2612-8071 9791221500790 9791221500783 9791221500806 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/74789 ita Premio Istituto Sangalli per la storia religiosa application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 9791221500790.pdf https://books.fupress.com/isbn/9791221500790 Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0079-0 During the 19th Century, more than 2000 children of sub-Saharan origin were redeemed from slavery by missionaries and educated in Europe with the aim of sending them back to Africa as «indigenous missionaries». Yet, so far this phenomenon has found no place in historiography and collective memory. Forgotten, perhaps, or removed. The so-called «moretti» were not mere anonymous satellites, orbiting around the European missionaries. Victims of the choices of others, but also protagonists according their own choices, they were real «agents of history». This book is a first attempt to remove them from the peripheries of our narratives and to return them a place and a name. The archives show it clearly: African-Europeans are far from being just recent actors of European history. 10.36253/979-12-215-0079-0 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9791221500790 9791221500783 9791221500806 14 364 Florence open access
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During the 19th Century, more than 2000 children of sub-Saharan origin were redeemed from slavery by missionaries and educated in Europe with the aim of sending them back to Africa as «indigenous missionaries». Yet, so far this phenomenon has found no place in historiography and collective memory. Forgotten, perhaps, or removed. The so-called «moretti» were not mere anonymous satellites, orbiting around the European missionaries. Victims of the choices of others, but also protagonists according their own choices, they were real «agents of history». This book is a first attempt to remove them from the peripheries of our narratives and to return them a place and a name. The archives show it clearly: African-Europeans are far from being just recent actors of European history.
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