Keywords
Ngola
Cartagena de Indias
catechizing
evangelism
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Abstract
This article aims to show how the black slaves were catechized in Cartagena and in the Kingdoms of Kongo and Ngola. In this inquiry the writings of missionaries in Africa from the first half of the seventeenth century were used, in order to go into the way the region was evangelized. These texts were written from a perspective based on observation and under the protection of a catholic euro-centrist speech, which became an important part of the black world literature. This information was compared with the procedures performed by the Jesuit priests Claver and Sandoval in Cartagena de Indias, in order to establish connections between the processes occurred on both sides of the Atlantic and the circulation of the catechetical process and the evangelization.The journal Memoria y Sociedad is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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