Mastering ChristianityMissionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23769455 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Travis Glasson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Publication date | 2011-11-14 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Mastering Christianity (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199773961.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W257654215 |
| ISBN | 9780199773961 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
Beginning in 1701, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) launched one of the earliest and most sustained efforts to Christianize enslaved people in Britain’s colonies. This book examines the history of this program and offers a new assessment of the missionary encounters it produced in colonial America and around the Atlantic world. Based on a belief in the essential unity of humankind, the Society’s missionaries worked to convert slaves and improve their treatment. However, over time the Society became increasingly comfortable with slavery, allied with masters, and willing to embrace slavery as a missionary tool. As this book shows, these developments provided moral and intellectual support to masters and they help explain why only a minority of enslaved people in colonial America adopted Anglicanism. Two key sites show how these dynamics operated in the wider Atlantic world. On its Codrington sugar plantation in Barbados, the Society owned hundreds of people and hoped to simultaneously make profits and save souls. In Africa, it cooperated with slave traders and established a mission at Cape Coast Castle, at the heart of the British slave trade. This book closes with a re-examination of the Society’s place in the history of abolition and emancipation. While some accounts have stressed SPG supporters’ reformism and anti-slave trade statements, here a re-evaluation reveals the Society’s corporate commitment to slavery, how its history was used to defend slaveholding, and how antislavery activists viewed the Society as a significant institutional opponent.
Archaeology · Atlantic World · Colonialism · Economic history · Emancipation · Gospel · Political science · Politics · World history · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment
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| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |