Tools of Control or Seeds of Liberation?

Reformed Evangelism and Slavery in the Ante-Bellum American South
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-7188-9796-3
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 161 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 248 g

Reihe: Lutterworth Press

Whyte’s detailed study of the American South considers the intertwining of religion and slavery from every angle, and ultimately explores how Christianity could provide the seeds of liberation.

Examining the history of slavery in the American South, it is impossible to separate the interpretations of Christianity from the arguments and counter-arguments surrounding liberation. In Tools of Control or Seeds of Liberation, Iain Whyte considers how this intertwining of ideologies impacted enslaved people and their relationship to religion. Tracing the legacy of the reformed tradition from its enthusiasm for 'instruction for all', to the weakening of views on injustice by slave-holding Christians, Whyte explores in detail the dilemmas, compromises, and self-interest of many Reformed Christians. He considers the essential incompatibility of faith in Jesus with the support of slavery, and how the movement for abolition in the mid-eighteenth century focussed Christians on this question.

In the second half of this book, Whyte concentrates on the voices of enslaved people, recording first-hand experiences of religion and its connection to slavery, exploring how remarkable women such as Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth liberated themselves, and returning to Scotland with Frederick Douglass to consider the Scottish protestant reaction. Whyte's detailed study considers the intertwining of religion and slavery from every angle, and ultimately explores how Christianity could provide the seeds of liberation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whyte, Iain

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Liturgik, Christliche Anbetung, Sakramente, Rituale, Feiertage
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliches Leben & Praxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Gottesdienst, Riten und Zeremonien
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Soziallehre und Sozialethik, Pastoral und Seelsorge
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Gebet & liturgisches Material

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction

1. John Knox and the Legacy of Religious Education
2. New World Presbyterians - Slavery and Caution
3. Th e Dilemmas of Some Princetonians
4. Rebellion and Reaction
5. Paternalism and Colonialism
6. Religious Education and Slaveholding
7. Religion in the Memory of the Enslaved
8. Against the Odds - Two Self- Liberated Women in a Male Era
9. Black Presbyterians in Cooperation and Conflict
10. Visiting the Reformation Roots
11. In the End of the Day

Index