John Francis Faupel, a Catholic priest who worked in Uganda from 1937, wrote the standard narrative history of the Uganda Martyrs, first published in 1962 and reissued in a revised edition in 1984. Drawing on missionary correspondence, court testimony and the surviving oral record, Faupel reconstructs the sequence of executions ordered by Kabaka Mwanga the Second of Buganda between 1885 and 1887 against young Christian converts, chiefly royal pages, at his court. It remains the most detailed connected narrative of the martyrdoms and is the source most other accounts of the episode draw on or cite against.
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Citation
PublisherP.J. Kennedy and Sons (1962 original edition); St Paul Publications Africa (1984 revised edition) 1 Publication Year URLhttps://archive.org/details/africanholocaust0000unse 1 Assessment
Reliability TierThe connected narrative history of the martyrdoms, built from missionary correspondence, court testimony and oral sources by an author who lived and worked in Uganda; still the account every later general and scholarly treatment of the episode draws on or checks its own figures against. Connections
Associated With
This source names Buganda directly: "ordered by Kabaka Mwanga the Second of Buganda between 1885 and 1887 against young Christian converts, chiefly royal pages, at his court."
Source Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Edition
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1. Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Edition
Claims Backed By This Source (17 claims)
This source backs 17 claims across the atlas. As facts: 14 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 connected. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Wars & Conflicts, 10 claims: 9 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Articles, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
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