By the time the Capuchins arrived in the seventeenth century, Kongo had been Catholic for nearly two hundred years. The European mission could not be conversion

Explores the role and memory of Catholic Christians in west central Africa, called "Slaves of the Church," in missionary efforts from the seventeenth through ni

The public memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade, which some years ago could be observed especially in North America, has slowly emerged into a transna

In an age of information and new media the relationships between remembering and forgetting have changed. This volume addresses the tension between loud and oft