Mastering Christianity Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World

Name: Mastering Christianity Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World
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ISBN: 9780199773961

ISBN-10: 0199773963

ISBN-13: 9780199773961

Edition: 2011

Authors: Travis Glasson

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Beginning in 1701, missionary-minded Anglicans launched one of the earliest and most sustained efforts to Christianize the enslaved people of Britain's colonies. This book offers a new assessment of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, which played a foundational role in colonial religious history and the history of British missionary activity. Based on a belief in the essential unity of humankind, the Society's missionaries advocated for the conversion and better treatment of enslaved people. Yet, only a minority of enslaved people embraced Anglicanism, while a majority rejected it. This book explores these missionary encounters in colonial America and around the…

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List price: $115.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/14/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 0.12" wide x 0.12" long x 0.12" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Institutional and Intellectual Foundations



"My Constitution is Constellated for Any Meridian": Creating Transatlantic Missionary Anglicanism



Natural Religion and the Sons of Noah: The Society Human Difference, and Slavery



The Society and Colonial Slavery



"The Two Great Articles of Faith and Obedience": Anglican Missionaries and Slavery, 1701-40



Masters and Pastors: Anglicanism, Revivalism, and Slavery 1740-65



Sites of Missionary Encounter



"A Sett of Possitive Obstinate People": Missionary Encounters on Codrington Plantation



"One of their Own Color and Kindred": Philip Quaque and the SPG Mission to Africa



Responses to Antislavery



"Themselves Under this Very Predicament": The Society and the Antislavery Movement, 1765-1838


Conclusion


Abbreviations


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index