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Independent African: John Chilembwe and the Origins, Setting, and Significance of the Nyasaland Native Rising of 1915

by Thomas Price, George Shepperson. 580 pgs.

Contributors:

   Thomas Price, George Shepperson

Publisher:

   University Press

Place of Publication:

  Edinburgh  

Publication Year:

  1958

Subjects:

Chilembwe, John,--D. 1915, Booth, Joseph,--1851-1932, Missions--Malawi, Malawi--History

	CONTENTS
	PREFACE	v
	FOREWORD TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION	vii
	CONTENTS	xiii
	ILLUSTRATIONS	xv
	NOTE ON SPELLING AND PRONUNCIATION	xvi
I.	INTRODUCTION	1
II.	ORIGINS: JOSEPH BOOTH AND JOHN CHILEMBWE, 1892-1897	7
1	Cannibalism and Culture-contact
2	British Central Africa in the Early 1890's
3	Joseph Booth--Early Life
4	Booth goes to Africa
5	The Meeting of Booth and Chilembwe
6	Booth's First Essay with American Negroes; Chilembwe writes a Letter
7	Booth, Chilembwe, and the African Christian Union
III.	CHILEMBWE AND BOOTH IN AMERICA, 1897-1900	83
1	Chilembwe and Booth together
2	American Negro Background
3	Booth's Book
4	Chilembwe at Lynchburg
5	Booth's 1899 Petition
6	Chilembwe leaves America
IV.	THE FIRST WAVE OF ETHIOPIANISM IN BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA, 1900-1912	125
1	Chilembwe goes Home
2	American Negroes arrive
3	Foundations of the Providence Industrial Mission
4	Chilembwe builds his Mission alone, 1906-10
5	Joseph Booth, Elliott Kamwana, and the Watch Tower Movement
6	Charles Domingo
7	Further Developments of the P. I. M., 1910-12
8	Ethiopianism in Nyasaland by 1912
V.	PRELUDE TO REVOLT, 1912-1915	187
1	Change and Stress in the Protectorate
2	Booth's Second Petition
3	An Innocent Abroad
4	The Character and Planning of the Rising
VI.	THE RISING, 23 JANUARY-4 FEBRUARY 1915	265
VII.	THE SMALLER MISSIONS AND EUROPEAN INVOLVEMENT IN THE RISING	321
1	Watch Tower; Zambesi and Nyassa Industrial Missions; Seventh-day Adventists
2	The Seventh Day Baptist Scapegoat
3	The Churches of Christ Scapegoat
4	Joseph Booth and the Rising
VIII.	THE AFTERMATH OF THE RISING	361
1	The Scottish Missions' Refutation
2	Other Aspects of the Commission
3	Some Results of the Rising and Commission
IX.	THE RISING IN PERSPECTIVE	397
1	In Central Africa
2	The Chilembwe Movement and Negro History
	NOTES AND REFERENCES	439
	SOURCES	505
	SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY	527
	ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS	537
	APPENDICES	541
1	African Christian Union Schedule, 14 January 1892
2	Lynchburg 'African Development Society', c. 1899
3	Occupational Stratification, baptized African Adults, Blantyre and Domasi, 1899
4	Letter from Chilembwe to Booth, 1911
5	Specimen List of Chilembwe's Following
6	Punitive Areas of the Rising
	INDEX	553
	MAPS	575

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