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Cover -- Occhiello -- Indice -- Introduzione -- Poems -- Abbreviazioni -- Foreword - Italian colonization -- Part I Origins,rescission of agreements and resistance -- Chapter 1 The origins of italian colonization in Somalia -- Chapter 2 The Mullah: Sayyid Mohammed Abdullah Hassan and his movement -- Chapter 3 The rescission of protection agreements by the fascist administration -- Part II Crucial issues during the italian colonial period -- Chapter 4 The ascent of italian colonialism in Somalia and the labour question, 1890s-1930s -- Chapter 5 Interaction among customary law, islamic law and colonial law during the italian administration of Somalia -- Part III From colonization to trusteeship and independence -- Chapter 6 Italy's "right of return" to Somalia after the defeat in the second world war -- Chapter 7 The United Nations and the Somali question: The transformation process from colony indipendence -- Part IV The aftermath of italian colonialism -- Chapter 8 The case of the boundary dispute between Ethiopia and Somalia:some remarks from an international law standpoint -- Chapter 9 Reparation for colonial crimes: the case of Somalia -- Appendice -- Volumi pubblicati.

During the 19th Century, more than 2000 children of sub-Saharan origin were redeemed from slavery by missionaries and educated in Europe with the aim of sending them back to Africa as «indigenous missionaries». Yet, so far this phenomenon has found no place in historiography and collective memory. Forgotten, perhaps, or removed. The so-called «moretti» were not mere anonymous satellites, orbiting around the European missionaries. Victims of the choices of others, but also protagonists according their own choices, they were real «agents of history». This book is a first attempt to remove them from the peripheries of our narratives and to return them a place and a name. The archives show it clearly: African-Europeans are far from being just recent actors of European history.