Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World

by Katharine Gerbner

Book Overview

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 owners in the Caribbean and elsewhere established governments and legal codes based on an ideology of "Protestant Supremacy," which excluded the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812224361
• ISBN13: 9780812224368
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"