Mastering Christianity: Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World by Travis Glasson Details
Beginning in 1701, Anglican missionary evangelicals launched one of the earliest and most sustainable efforts to colonize slaves in British colonies. Hundreds of clergymen traveled to large-scale locations in North…
Beginning in 1701, Anglican missionary evangelicals launched one of the earliest and most sustainable efforts to colonize slaves in British colonies. Hundreds of clergymen traveled to large-scale locations in North America, the Caribbean and West Africa under the auspices of the SPG and carried out this work.
Based on faith in the basic unity of mankind, the missionaries in the Assembly called for the conversion and better treatment of enslaved persons. However, only a minority of the enslaved people embraced Anglicanism, while the majority rejected it.
The mastery of Christianity closely explores these missionary meetings. The Society hoped to make bondage less cruel and patriarchal, but it came to reinforce the notion that the bondage of the Comet and Christianity was fully compatible and could be mutually beneficial.
While the early important figures considered slavery to be worrisome, over time the Society absorbed its message to the slave owners, supported laws that tightened the colonial slave laws and embraced slavery as a missionary. The SPG group has hundreds of people bonded to the Codrington farm in Barbados, hoping to make profits and save lives at the same time. In Africa, the association cooperated with English slave traders in establishing a mission at the Cape Coast Castle, at the heart of the transatlantic slave trade.
SPG helped lay the foundation for black Protestantism, but pessimism about the project grew internally, and the repeated black people's skepticism about Anglicanism was explained as evidence of the inherent inferiority of African peoples and their American descendants. Through texts and practices, SPG has provided important intellectual, political and moral support to slaves around the British Empire.
The rise of anti-slavery sentiment has challenged the principles that have long supported the evangelical missionary program. However, supporters of abolition have argued that Hizb ut-Tahrir is an important institutional opposition to their agenda.
In this work, Travis Glasson presents a unique perspective on the development and consolidation of the pro-slavery ideology by showing how English religious thinking helped to develop slavery and support the institution around the Atlantic world.
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