{"id":47658,"date":"2014-12-31T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/for_his_feast_day_3-john_martin_samuel_ajayi_crowthers_world_the_cover-up\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T07:29:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T12:29:08","slug":"for_his_feast_day_3-john_martin_samuel_ajayi_crowthers_world_the_cover-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47658","title":{"rendered":"For his Feast Day (3)&#8211;John Martin: Samuel Ajayi Crowther\u2019s World: The Cover-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great contributions of CMS to African Christianity was its encouragement and support of the mission of ex-slaves in West Africa, led by Samuel Ajayi Crowther and his associates.<\/p>\n<p>As Yale professor Lamin Sanneh has noted, this movement brought a new world order into being, a world order achieved not through colonial power or military might but by something radically opposite. Its agents were drawn from among the world&#8217;s most repressed and downtrodden who became champions of freedom, dignity and enterprising evangelical faith.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome was a high-octane faith that exulted in the freedom Christ offered. The principles of anti-slavery and freedom became keynotes of a massive movement that few white people fully comprehended. At one stage Sierra Leone was sending a higher proportion of its population into missionary service than has ever been achieved anywhere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140915092608\/http:\/\/www.cms-uk.org\/Ourstories\/Crowther150years\/Crowtherstories\/TabId\/798\/ArtMID\/4023\/ArticleID\/2476\/Crowthers-World-The-Cover-Up.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great contributions of CMS to African Christianity was its encouragement and support of the mission of ex-slaves in West Africa, led by Samuel Ajayi Crowther and his associates. As Yale professor Lamin Sanneh has noted, this movement<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47658\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,74,186,390,168,182,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-history","category-church-of-nigeria","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-missions","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88097,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47658\/revisions\/88097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}