Agony of Asar Doctoral Thesis of an African Slave in the Twilight of Holland's Golden Age

Name: Agony of Asar Doctoral Thesis of an African Slave in the Twilight of Holland's Golden Age
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ISBN: 9781558761261

ISBN-10: 1558761268

ISBN-13: 9781558761261

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jacobus Eliza Johannes, Grant Parker, Grant Parker

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Represents the first scholarly work by an African on the subject of slavery, originally presented as the author's thesis at Leyden University, 1742. Capitein analyzes the concept of freedom in scripture and concludes that it is spiritual rather than physical, and therefore has no civic consequences. He provides a sweeping genealogy of western thought on slavery, citing texts from the Bible, from Greco-Roman antiquity, and from early modern Europe. Translator Grant Parker's commentary includes a brief survey of African intellectuals in 18th-century Europe. Includes a facsimile of the original text. Lacks a subject index. Parker is affiliated with Duke University. c. Book News Inc.

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/31/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 120
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Foreword	p. vii
The Agony of Asar: an introduction to the life and work of Capitein	p. 1
A life: servitude and aftermath	p. 7
An orphan in the Netherlands	p. 7
Unhappy returns: Elmina, 1742-1747	p. 11
Potentially parallel lives: Equiano and Capitein	p. 17
The West Indies Company and the Dutch slave trade	p. 19
The birth and slow demise of a seaborne empire	p. 19
White man's burden: Christian mission	p. 33
Capitein's writings in overview	p. 38
Missiology	p. 38
A scholar and an African	p. 43
Capitein's dissertation in context	p. 56
A history of Ham's curse: Christianity and slavery	p. 56
Antislavery sentiment in the Netherlands	p. 66
Conclusions	p. 73
Defining slavery: ownership and social death	p. 73
Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein: Political-theological dissertation examining the question: Is slavery compatible with Christian freedom or not?	p. 79
Preface: To the reader	p. 81
Which defines slavery and proposes the subject of inquiry	p. 95
Which explores the ancient origin of slavery and shows that nearly all societies made use of it	p. 97
Which proves that slavery and Christianity are not antithetical	p. 103
Two prefaces to Capitein's translation of religious texts	p. 133
[The translator] to the Christian reader	p. 133
The publisher to the reader	p. 134
African intellectuals in 18th-century Europe	p. 136
Capitein and his world: a select bibliography	p. 153
Abbreviations used in the endnotes	p. 157
Notes to the introduction	p. 158
Notes to Capitein's dissertation	p. 171
Index	p. 181
Maps
The Atlantic world in the early 18th century	p. 22
The Guinea Coast	p. 22
The Netherlands	p. 23
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