TY - JOUR
T1 - The ultimate sin
T2 - Christianising slaves in Barbados in the seventeenth century
AU - Gerbner, Katharine
PY - 2010/3
Y1 - 2010/3
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1080/01440390903481654
DO - 10.1080/01440390903481654
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:77958087801
SN - 0144-039X
VL - 31
SP - 57
EP - 73
JO - Slavery and Abolition
JF - Slavery and Abolition
IS - 1
ER -