Author: Thomas WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catechisms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Knowledge and Practice of Christianity Made Easy to the Meanest Capacities: Or, An Essay Towards an Instruction for the Indians ... The Tenth Edition
Author: Thomas WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catechisms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Biographical Memorial of James Oglethorpe
Author: Thaddeus Mason HarrisPublisher:
ISBN: 3752305320
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Biographical Memorial of James Oglethorpe by Thaddeus Mason Harris
A Memoir of General James Oglethorpe
Author: Robert WrightPublisher: London : Chapman and Hall
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Mastering Christianity
Author: Travis GlassonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199773998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Beginning in 1701, missionary-minded Anglicans launched one of the earliest and most sustained efforts to Christianize the enslaved people of Britain's colonies. Hundreds of clergy traveled to widely-dispersed posts in North America, the Caribbean, and West Africa under the auspices of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) and undertook this work. Based on a belief in the essential unity of humankind, the Society's missionaries advocated for the conversion and better treatment of enslaved people. Yet, only a minority of enslaved people embraced Anglicanism, while a majority rejected it. Mastering Christianity closely explores these missionary encounters. The Society hoped to make slavery less cruel and more paternalistic but it came to stress the ideas that chattel slavery and Christianity were entirely compatible and could even be mutually beneficial. While important early figures saw slavery as troubling, over time the Society accommodated its message to slaveholders, advocated for laws that tightened colonial slave codes, and embraced slavery as a missionary tool. The SPG owned hundreds of enslaved people on its Codrington plantation in Barbados, where it hoped to simultaneously make profits and save souls. In Africa, the Society cooperated with English slave traders in establishing a mission at Cape Coast Castle, at the heart of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The SPG helped lay the foundation for black Protestantism but pessimism about the project grew internally and black people's frequent skepticism about Anglicanism was construed as evidence of the inherent inferiority of African people and their American descendants. Through its texts and practices, the SPG provided important intellectual, political, and moral support for slaveholding around the British empire. The rise of antislavery sentiment challenged the principles that had long underpinned missionary Anglicanism's program, however, and abolitionists viewed the SPG as a significant institutional opponent to their agenda. In this work, Travis Glasson provides a unique perspective on the development and entrenchment of a pro-slavery ideology by showing how English religious thinking furthered the development of slavery and supported the institution around the Atlantic world.
Encounters of the Spirit
Author: Richard W. PointerPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253116899
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Historians have long been aware that the encounter with Europeans affected all aspects of Native American life. But were Indians the only ones changed by these cross-cultural meetings? Might the newcomers' ways, including their religious beliefs and practices, have also been altered amid their myriad contacts with native peoples? In Encounters of the Spirit, Richard W. Pointer takes up these intriguing questions in an innovative study of the religious encounter between Indians and Euro-Americans in early America. Exploring a series of episodes across the three centuries of the colonial era and stretching from New Spain to New France and the English settlements, he finds that the flow of cultural influence was more often reciprocal than unidirectional.
Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe, Founder of the Colony of Georgia in North America
Author: Thaddeus Mason HarrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe, founder of the Colony of Georgia
Author: Thaddeus Mason HARRISPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe
Author: Thaddeus Mason HarrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Books Relating to the History of Georgia in the Library of Wymberley Jones De Renne, of Wormsloe, Isle of Hope, Chatham County, Georgia
Author: Wymberley Jones De RennePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Catalogue of a collection of early printed and other books bequeathed to the library by John Couch Adams
Author: Cambridge University LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description