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Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World - Couverture souple

Gerbner, Katharine

 
9780812224368: Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0812224361 ISBN 13 : 9780812224368
Editeur : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019

Synopsis

Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? In Christian Slavery, Katharine Gerbner contends that religion was fundamental to the development of both slavery and race in the Protestant Atlantic world. Slave owners in the Caribbean and elsewhere established governments and legal codes based on an ideology of "Protestant Supremacy," which excluded the majority of enslaved men and women from Christian communities. For slaveholders, Christianity was a sign of freedom, and most believed that slaves should not be eligible for conversion.

When Protestant missionaries arrived in the plantation colonies intending to convert enslaved Africans to Christianity in the 1670s, they were appalled that most slave owners rejected the prospect of slave conversion. Slaveholders regularly attacked missionaries, both verbally and physically, and blamed the evangelizing newcomers for slave rebellions. In response, Quaker, Anglican, and Moravian missionaries articulated a vision of "Christian Slavery," arguing that Christianity would make slaves hardworking and loyal.

Over time, missionaries increasingly used the language of race to support their arguments for slave conversion. Enslaved Christians, meanwhile, developed an alternate vision of Protestantism that linked religious conversion to literacy and freedom. Christian Slavery shows how the contentions between slave owners, enslaved people, and missionaries transformed the practice of Protestantism and the language of race in the early modern Atlantic world.

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À propos de l'auteur

Katharine Gerbner teaches history at the University of Minnesota.

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Éditeur
University of Pennsylvania Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0812224361
ISBN 13 
9780812224368
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
296
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