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Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora
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2016
Summary
Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora considers how, in areas as diverse as the New Hebrides, Scotland, the United States, and East Central Africa, men’s and women’s shared Presbyterian faith conditioned their interpretations of and interactions with the institution of chattel slavery. The chapters highlight how Presbyterians’ reactions to slavery –which ranged from abolitionism, to indifference, to support—reflected their considered application of the principles of the Reformed Tradition to the institution. Consequently, this collection reveals how the particular ways in which Presbyterians framed the Reformed Tradition made slavery an especially problematic and fraught issue for adherents to the faith.
Faith and Slavery, by situating slavery at the nexus of Presbyterian theology and practice, offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between religion and slavery. It reverses the all too common assumption that religion primarily served to buttress existing views on slavery, by illustrating how groups’ and individuals reactions to slavery emerged from their understanding of the Presbyterian faith. The collection’s geographic reach—encompassing the experiences of people from Europe, Africa, America, and the Pacific—filtered through the lens of Presbyterianism also highlights the global dimensions of slavery and the debates surrounding it. The institution and the challenges it presented, Faith and Slavery stresses, reflected less the peculiar conditions of a particular place and time, than the broader human condition as people attempt to understand and shape their world.
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Copyright year
2016
ISBN-Print
978-1-61146-201-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-61146-202-9
Publisher
University Press Copublishing, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
277
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Foreword No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 14
1 From James Montgomery to James Macbeth No access Pages 15 - 42
2 Between Enlightenment and Evangelicalism No access Pages 43 - 70
3 “Made of One Flesh?” No access Pages 71 - 94
4 “A Blessing or a Curse, Depending on How It Is Used” No access Pages 95 - 124
5 Transatlantic Family Journeys No access Pages 125 - 148
6 The Reformed Presbyterian Church and Antislavery in Nineteenth-Century America No access Pages 149 - 174
7 Commerce and Christianity No access Pages 175 - 204
8 Antislavery Work by the American Women of the Presbyterian Congo Mission No access Pages 205 - 230
9 “The Slave Trade in the New Hebrides” No access Pages 231 - 250
Presbyterian Orthodoxies and Slavery No access Pages 251 - 264
