Association to support poor negro children
The association for the support of poor negro children was an internationally operating organization, the purpose of which was the missionary work , ie baptism and previous religious instruction of predominantly female minors of black African descent . Other sources give the name "Association for the Support of Poor Negro Children in Cologne" . Pope Pius IX had promised all members a complete indulgence at the time of their death in April 1853 .
history
The Italian priest Nicolo Giovanni Battista Olivieri , (* 1792, † 1864, from Genoa) founded the association in Cologne in 1852 . It existed between 1852 and 1936. Comboni , the priest and founder of the order , also had connections to the association. Several such mission associations existed in the 19th century . In 1871 a "General Assembly of Catholic Associations" took place in Mainz, from which the Catholic Days later emerged.
Field of activity
With the slave trade still active , the African market, e.g. B. in Sudan , over 1000 children "ransomed", that is, bought at market value and sent to stopovers, for example at the Instituto della Palma in Naples , which belongs to Olivieri, to Italy, France and Germany. There they were housed in monasteries for the purpose of education and training. In the German-speaking area, monasteries in Bavaria, Austria and South Tyrol took in " Negro children ". Often the children were baptized in spectacular actions and received prominent sponsors .
Problem
Many of the children, however, were unable to cope with the demands of the European climate and the new living conditions, and it was not unusual for deaths to be recorded during the crossing or in the first few years.
On the other hand, apart from ransom, there were no opportunities to give the children a future other than slavery. They were previously torn from their surroundings by Arab slave traders, mostly girls. In Egypt, the place of the slave markets, there was no childcare infrastructure in the Christian-European sense. And the way the children went back to their parents (who were probably also abducted) could not be reconstructed.
Web links
- Ute Küppers-Braun: P. Niccolò Olivieri and the (lot) purchase of African slave children . 2001. doi : 10.5169 / seals-390478
- Working group on the history of the order
- Cistercium
supporting documents
- ^ DIE ZEIT, December 31, 2008 No. 02
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Working group of non-university historical research institutions in the Federal Republic of Germany eV No. 024 of February 10, 2006
- ↑ Ute Küppers-Braun: Mission: "Augustina Christin is" . In: The time . No. 02/2009 ( online ).
