Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Acts and Proceedings in Regular Session
Author: General Synod. The Acts and Proceedings of the General Synod of the Reformed Dutch Church in North America at New-York, June, 1834
Author: Reformed Protestant Dutch Church (AMERICA, North). General SynodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Spaces of Enslavement
Author: Andrea C. MostermanPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501715631
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
In Spaces of Enslavement, Andrea C. Mosterman addresses the persistent myth that the colonial Dutch system of slavery was more humane. Investigating practices of enslavement in New Netherland and then in New York, Mosterman shows that these ways of racialized spatial control held much in common with the southern plantation societies. In the 1620s, Dutch colonial settlers brought slavery to the banks of the Hudson River and founded communities from New Amsterdam in the south to Beverwijck near the terminus of the navigable river. When Dutch power in North America collapsed and the colony came under English control in 1664, Dutch descendants continued to rely on enslaved labor. Until 1827, when slavery was abolished in New York State, slavery expanded in the region, with all free New Yorkers benefitting from that servitude. Mosterman describes how the movements of enslaved persons were controlled in homes and in public spaces such as workshops, courts, and churches. She addresses how enslaved people responded to regimes of control by escaping from or modifying these spaces so as to expand their activities within them. Through a close analysis of homes, churches, and public spaces, Mosterman shows that, over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the region's Dutch communities were engaged in a daily struggle with Black New Yorkers who found ways to claim freedom and resist oppression. Spaces of Enslavement writes a critical and overdue chapter on the place of slavery and resistance in the colony and young state of New York.
The Christian Herald
Author: Documents of the Senate of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Christian Herald and Seaman's Magazine
Author: Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: Acts and Proceedings of the General Synod of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in North America
Author: Reformed Church in AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Vol.1, a translation includes "the period from 1771-1812, preceded by the Minutes of the Cœtus (1738-1754) and the Proceedings of the Conferentie (1755-1767) and followed by the Minutes of the original particular synod (1794-1799)"
Dividing the Faith
Author: Richard J BolesPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479801674
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Uncovers the often overlooked participation of African Americans and Native Americans in early Protestant churches Phillis Wheatley was stolen from her family in Senegambia, and, in 1761, slave traders transported her to Boston, Massachusetts, to be sold. She was purchased by the Wheatley family who treated Phillis far better than most eighteenth-century slaves could hope, and she received a thorough education while still, of course, longing for her freedom. After four years, Wheatley began writing religious poetry. She was baptized and became a member of a predominantly white Congregational church in Boston. More than ten years after her enslavement began, some of her poetry was published in London, England, as a book titled Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. This book is evidence that her experience of enslavement was exceptional. Wheatley remains the most famous black Christian of the colonial era. Though her experiences and accomplishments were unique, her religious affiliation with a predominantly white church was quite ordinary. Dividing the Faith argues that, contrary to the traditional scholarly consensus, a significant portion of northern Protestants worshipped in interracial contexts during the eighteenth century. Yet in another fifty years, such an affiliation would become increasingly rare as churches were by-and-large segregated. Richard Boles draws from the records of over four hundred congregations to scrutinize the factors that made different Christian traditions either accessible or inaccessible to African American and American Indian peoples. By including Indians, Afro-Indians, and black people in the study of race and religion in the North, this research breaks new ground and uses patterns of church participation to illuminate broader social histories. Overall, it explains the dynamic history of racial integration and segregation in northern colonies and states.