The primary goal of the American Foreign Missionary Society was "<span>to establish missions in lands west of the Mississippi River," </span>
The Spanish.
Spanish was the former colonial overlords of the Philippines and Beveridge was opposed to the idea of returning the Philippines to Spain.
Africa was badly harmed by the slave trade. The trade made war more common, harmed the economies and society’s of the nations from which slaves came, and eventually made it easier for Africa to be colonized by the Europeans.
It brought conflict between labor and management.
