Christian slavery : conversion and race in the protestant Atlantic world /

Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? In this book, the author contends that religion was fundamental to the development of both slavery and race in the Protestant Atlantic world. Slave owners in the Car...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gerbner, Katharine, 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
Series:Early American studies.
Subjects:
Slavery and the church > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Enslaved persons > Religious life > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Christian converts > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Esclaves > Atlantique, Région de l' > Vie religieuse.
Convertis chrétiens > Atlantique, Région de l' > Histoire.
RELIGION > Christian Church > History.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Christian converts
Race relations
Slavery and the church
Enslaved persons > Religious life
Atlantic Ocean Region > Race relations > History.
Atlantique, Région de l' > Relations raciales > Histoire.
Atlantic Ocean Region
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Christian slaves in the Atlantic world
  • Protestant supremacy
  • Quaker slavery and slave rebellion
  • From Christian to white
  • The imperial politics of slave conversion
  • The SPG and slavery
  • Inner slavery and spiritual freedom
  • Defining true conversion
  • Epilogue : Proslavery theology and Black Christianity.

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