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the patterns of tribal life. After the murder of Bishop
Ilannington and the persecution of converts, the C. H. S.
in Uganda began to urge the extension of British influence
though the home organisation was at first doubtful.
But it was the slave trade which provided the beat
justification for imperial expansion. The slavery issue
was a highly emotive one. The accounts of Livingstone's
travels and`othor explorations had provided and publicized
the details of Arab slave raids. Moro information percolated
back via the missions. The head of the Church of Scotland
Blantyre Mission reported, - "The Arab slave trade in making
frightful progream... it in not slave trade% it is massacre
of the most barbarous type... deaolation of the fairest
lands, lands whore the natives were at peace% where industry
and thrift and happiness ruled. "", (`)
Pathetic accounts
were given of the micerien of the march to the coast which
was thought to be much worse than the existence of the slave
who had reached his destination, -a paper to the Scottish
Geographical Society in 1885 described the sufferings of
(1) See Church Missionsry inte11. ironcer, September 1887,
(2) quoted in James Stevenson The Arabs in Central Africa
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