Was Eighteenth-Century Arminian Anti-Slavery Also Anti-Racist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21238701 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Natalya A Cherry (0000-0002-3736-2422, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 76-87 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-06 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Wesley and Methodist Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2291-1723 • E-ISSN: 2291-1731 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/weslmethstud.15.1.0076 |
| OpenAlex | W4362500205 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Despite portrayals of John Wesley and early Methodist leaders as proto-proponents of civil rights, their Arminian anti-slavery stance was hardly what scholars Ibram X. Kendi and Anthony G. Reddie term ‘anti-racist’. There remained in their writings evidence of empire that upheld racist constructs. What if, rather than decrying colonists’ desire for independence, Wesley had helped them see that fighting for enslaved persons’ freedom might assist their own efforts at liberation from tyranny? Confronting the persistence of racism even amid anti-slavery in Wesley and early Methodism aids in developing an alternative lens to empire that can help their descendants today
Civil rights · Empire · Methodism · Political science · Racism · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Gender Studies · History · Law · Mormonism, Religion, and History · Philosophy · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment · Religious studies
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |