 | New-York Historical Society - 1844 - 492 pages
...Foulahs are exercising a powerful influence upon the moral and social condi- . tion of Central Africa, they are destined to be the great instrument in the...civilization of Africa, and the consequent suppression of the slave trade. The authors of the Journal of the Niger Expedition in 1841, Messrs. Schonand Crowther,... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 pages
...Fetish and greegree have been abandoned ; anthropophagy and cannibalism have been suppressed. . . . Thus the Foulahs are now exercising a powerful influence...destined to be the great instrument in the future civilisation of Africa, and the consequent suppression of the external Atlantic slave trade. . . .... | |
 | 1848 - 420 pages
...the Foulah has wandered, the pagan idolatry of the negro has been overthrown. Thus the Foulaha are exercising a powerful influence upon the moral and social condition of Central Africa." [Notes on Northern Africa, by WB Hodgson, New York, Wiley & Putnam, 1844.] It thus appears that Central... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1854 - 740 pages
...barbarous Fetish and greegree have been abandoned ; anthropophagy and cannibalism have been suppressed. Thus the Foulahs are now exercising a powerful influence...suppression of the external Atlantic slave trade. They will, probably, erect one vast empire in the Soudan, and the influence which that power may exert... | |
 | Keith Cartwright - 2002 - 282 pages
...as in physical traits" (4). Attracted by "the moral superiority of the Foulahs," Hodgson found them "destined to be the great instrument in the Future civilization of Africa" since "[w]herever the Foulah has wandered, the pagan idolatry of the negro has been overthrown; the... | |
 | Jane Thomas (née Pinhorn) - 1852 - 434 pages
...for proselytism in Central Africa. They are the missionaries of Islam among the pagan negro tribes. Thus the Foulahs are now exercising a powerful influence...the moral and social condition of Central Africa. Without doubt they are destined to be the great instrument in the future civilization of Africa, and... | |
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Wherever the Foulah has wandered, the Pagan idolatry of the negro has been overthrown ; the barbarous Fetish and greegree have been abandoned ; anthropophagy and cannibalism have been suppressed. Thus the Foulahs are now exercising a powerful influence... 