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By Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo
This e-book offers an old, severe research of the doctrine of 'civilising challenge' in Portuguese colonialism within the the most important interval from 1870 to 1930. Exploring overseas contexts and transnational connections, this 'civilising project' is analysed and assessed by way of studying the employment and distribution of African manpower.
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Young and V. Lovett Cameron, the Reverend Henry Rowley and the mining engineer Joachim John Monteiro. As we noted above, the changes to the geopolitical and georeligious chessboards (without forgetting their interrelations) focused on the African continent were determinant in the increase and diversification of the critical focus over political, economic and social processes in the colonial context. 32 The ‘Civilising Mission’ of Portuguese Colonialism Events as the 1876 Brussels Conference, and processes such as the growth in the number of Catholic and Protestant missionary institutes of several nationalities in the Congo and Nyassa, and the increase in interimperial and intercolonial rivalries in Africa triggered an increase in the number of reports, testimonies, memoranda and petitions relating to particular aspects of the colonial process in which those related to the articulation of politico-territorial and humanitarian questions clearly dominated.
29 Native Labour and Portuguese Colonialism 27 Repeatedly dubbed ‘memorable liberating law’, an expression that would endure in Portuguese political and diplomatic texts, the law of 29 April 1875, signed by Andrade Corvo, would have concluded the ‘brilliant and humanitarian […] generous work of civilisation’ that ‘Portugal had spontaneously undertaken’. Accordingly, it deserved a synopsis of its provisions in the Mémoire, a document that, we must recall, was presented and appreciated during the first session of the Brussels Conference.
Years before, in the ‘touchstone of all studies of the modern Portuguese colonial administration’, as Marcelo Caetano wrote about his report Moçambique, Enes had declared that once the system of slavery had been abolished ‘the economic interests 40 The ‘Civilising Mission’ of Portuguese Colonialism would recommend the legislator to make all due diligence to profit and conserve the working habits that it [slavery] imposes on the negroes’. Against the legislation that represented ‘a type of declaration of negro rights’, Enes denounced the instructions that forced the tribunals and administrations to protect ‘the sacred right of idleness granted to the Africans’.