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[...] Most significant, however, were the attitudes colonial administrators developed toward the activities of the missions. The construction of Black Europeans was overly ambitious in their eyes. In 1938, Arthur Mayhew would advise an Oxford University summer session for colonial administrators th…

And, inevitably, their societies and subcultures upon which the intelligentsia drew were steadily becoming less autochthonous.

In other words, those peoples who had in the most early era of the colony’s development as a plantation and mining economy served as the source of labor were seen as pliable and naturally agrarian; those whose recruitment coincided with the region’s beginning of urbanization and secondary manufactu…

that form the integument for both the recovery and the reconstruction of these events

[...] “The general opinion seems to have been that the negroes were worked too hard, and … that this was often deliberately done, as many masters considered it cheaper to buy slaves than to breed them.”166 As a consequence, the colony was forced to import Africans at a rate, which, by the time of t…