The Ultimate Sin: Christianising Slaves in Barbados in the Seventeenth Century

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
Main Author: Gerbner, Katharine
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Missionaries
Rebellions
Religious conversion
Slavery
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