| #1804821 in Books | 2011-11-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.40 x1.30 x9.30l,1.25 | File type: PDF | 328 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent, Dispassionate Treatment of a Difficult (Uncomfortable) Subject|By Timothy Scott|Travis Glasson has produced a work that is scholarly and fair. Naturally the connection between Christianity and slavery is a sensitive social subject and should be handled with great care. Glasson does an excellent job of writing as a dispassionate historian (as much as this is possible|||"While the book is constructed largely as a study of the eighteenth-century Atlantic World, religion, race, and the institution of slavery, it also has broader importance to the study of the often surprisingly complex and multifaceted world of imperial and co
Beginning in 1701, missionary-minded Anglicans launched one of the earliest and most sustained efforts to Christianize the enslaved people of Britain's colonies. Hundreds of clergy traveled to widely-dispersed posts in North America, the Caribbean, and West Africa under the auspices of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) and undertook this work. Based on a belief in the essential unity of humankind, the Society's missionaries advocated fo...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Mastering Christianity: Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World | Travis Glasson. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
