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Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora (Hardcover)
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Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
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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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