Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World
by
Katharine Gerbner
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? In Christian Slavery, Katharine Gerbner contends that religion was fundamental to the development of both slavery and race in the Protestant Atlantic world. Slave...