Jacobus Eliza Johannes Capitein, 1717-1747

Etude critique d'un Africain du XVIIIe siècle

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Jacobus Eliza Johannes Capitein, 1717-1747

Etude critique d'un Africain du XVIIIe siècle

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Rarement, dans l'histoire de la diaspora africaine, un personnage comme Capitein (1717-1747) aura été aussi controversé. Né en pays fanti, dans l'actuel Ghana, il sera enlevé par les Hollandais, et vendu à un capitaine de navire de la Compagnie des Indes occidentales. Arrivé en Hollande en 1728, il bénéficiera d'une instruction approfondie en théologie et étudiera à l'université de Leyde, où, le 10 mars 1743, il soutiendra sa " célèbre " thèse qui déclarait que l'esclavage était conforme à l'esprit de la religion chrétienne ! Avec la bienveillance intéressée de la Compagnie, il retourne dans son pays comme pasteur du fort hollandais d'Elmina où il s'emploiera à évangéliser son peuple, et à traduire les textes sacrés du latin en fanti.
Peu de temps après son installation à Elmina, il disparaît dans des conditions restées mystérieuses. A ce jour le public francophone n'avait jamais bénéficié d'une étude de cette importance sur cette figure de l'histoire africaine. Dans cet ouvrage critique et documenté, Kwesi Prah nous apporte un éclairage nouveau sur la vie et l'œuvre de Capitein, que le grand public aura désormais l'opportunité de découvrir, 260 ans après la soutenance de sa thèse qui le rendit - hélas - si célèbre.

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Cover of: Jacobus Eliza Johannes Capitein
Jacobus Eliza Johannes Capitein: a critical study of an 18th century African
1992, Africa World Press
in English - 1st Africaworld press ed.
Cover of: Jacobus Eliza Johannes Capitein 1717-1747
Jacobus Eliza Johannes Capitein 1717-1747: a critical study of an 18th century African
1992, Africa World Press
in English - 1st Africa world press ed.
Cover of: Jacobus Eliza Johannes Capitein, 1717-1747
Jacobus Eliza Johannes Capitein, 1717-1747: a critical study of an eighteenth century African
1989, Skotaville Publishers, Skotaville
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Jacobus Eliza Johannes Capitein, 1717-1747: Etude critique d'un Africain du XVIIIe siècle
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Source title: Jacobus Eliza Johannes Capitein, 1717-1747 (French Edition)

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Dieudonné Gnammmankou

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OL31987658M
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270870768X
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Capitein's claim to fame or infamy derives from his thesis that slavery is not contrary to Christian principles. Slavery has long been banished from human social intercourse. Capitein continues to be remembered as the African who defended slavery.

The resurgence of interest in Capitein is also partly due to this current debate and its political undercurrent. Was Capitein such an irredeemable devil's advocate? "How could he betray his roots so thoroughly?" it is often asked. Lobengula in 19th century Southern Africa was tricked into a drunken stupor to "sign" away lands to colonialists. For Lobengula, it took alcohol to do the trick; for Capitein, was it not the over-kill of a dominant intellectual culture? Are the "black skin white masks" of today seriously different from Capitein?

Capitein's contraditions, the outer manifestations of his inner wranglings loom large when examined today. The absurdities of the period dramatized by the length of the ensuing historical time span and the changes in beliefs, values, and scientifically verifies facts of life, present in effect Capitein's weaknesses, in an almost trangicomic light.

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