The Ultimate Sin: Christianising Slaves in Barbados in the Seventeenth Century
My article traces the changing attitudes toward slave conversion in seventeenth-century Barbados - from hesitant discomfort in the mid-seventeenth century, to virulent rejection in 1680 - and argues that the attempted rebellion of 1675, which was widely blamed on Quaker proselytising efforts, played...
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| Published in: | Slavery & abolition 2010-03, Vol.31 (1), p.57-73 |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | My article traces the changing attitudes toward slave conversion in seventeenth-century Barbados - from hesitant discomfort in the mid-seventeenth century, to virulent rejection in 1680 - and argues that the attempted rebellion of 1675, which was widely blamed on Quaker proselytising efforts, played a pivotal role in the development of an antagonistic attitude toward missionaries in Barbados. The 1675 attempted rebellion, I suggest, linked slave conversion with slave rebellion in a new and decisive way that had repercussions throughout the British West Indies. |
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| ISSN: | 0144-039X 1743-9523 |