Civilizing Mission Analysis

The “civilizing mission” purpose is to introduce the hardships that are caused by the combination of the Gold Coast culture and the English way in life. In 1874 the English rules was to under the Gold Coast, in which the English had to banish slavery in Britain, their colonies had a hard time in accomplishing the transition from slavery to freedom for everyone. In their hard times they had to deal with hardships, imposing new rules to the city housing, road work, decision-making, and what behavior is agreeable in the city. A young woman who was mistakenly enslaved than later on took her case to court. Abina Mansah is in the lowest rungs of society fighting for her freedom. She suffers hardships as a slave, she had made a decision to escape from her master and headed to Cape Coast town. She then realized that she need a piece of document that says that she is free, but it wasn’t that easy. She would need a job and a place to stay; or the police would place her in prison. In this story there are important men a British judge and two Euro-African attorneys. William Melton played a major role in this story as a judge and magistrate, he was a …show more content…
It includes social history methologies, illustrate Abina experiences for example, employment, living condition, violence, classification, and sexual exploitation. The important men, I believe had their thoughts in which, the ways that civilizing mission in relation to human rights, with human rights it’s a rights and freedoms in which all humans are advised to be entitled. We didn’t get must of human rights in this story with Abina being a slave, she had no rights; she was a slave. She had her own opinion how things should go and how she should be free. The important men that helped Abina had the own opinion, they where I believe well educated or should I say had good knowledge in what they are talking about in the court