"In terms of rebuilding, and slowly rebuilding the country, that's what we're in the middle of right now, I don't think we can imagine what slavery has done to the people here, that goes very deep, these things take a very long time even the opposition to colonialism has traces of it. Here it was quite late, 1830, but a little further west, slavery lasted 3 to 4 centuries, 40 to 60 million people are estimated, were moved from here, to America, that's no small thing, you would say that is an African holocaust."
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The end of an era: 130 years of experiences of Dutch missionaries Marga Kerklaan, Ambo, 1992. testimony by Dr. H Hinfelaar (White Fathers).
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Charles Lavigerie
Charles Martial Allemand Lavigerie, M. Afr. (31 October 1825 – 26 November 1892) was a French Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Carthage and Algiers and Primate of Africa. He also founded the White Fathers. He crusaded against the slave trade, and he founded the order of priests called the White Fathers, so named for their white cassocks and red fezzes. He also established similar orders of brothers and nuns. He sent his missionaries to the Sahara, Sudan, Tunisia, and Tripolitania. His efforts we
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