{"product_id":"faith-and-slavery-in-the-presbyterian-diaspora-9781611462012","title":"Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFaith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora considers how, in areas as diverse as the New Hebrides, Scotland, the United States, and East Central Africa, men’s and women’s shared Presbyterian faith conditioned their interpretations of and interactions with the institution of chattel slavery. The chapters highlight how Presbyterians’ reactions to slavery –which ranged from abolitionism, to indifference, to support—reflected their considered application of the principles of the Reformed Tradition to the institution.  Consequently,  this collection reveals  how the particular ways in which Presbyterians framed the Reformed Tradition made slavery an especially problematic and fraught issue for adherents to the faith.   Faith and Slavery, by situating slavery at the nexus of Presbyterian theology and practice, offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between religion and slavery.  It reverses the all too common assumption that religion primarily served to buttress existing views on slavery, by illustrating how groups’ and individuals reactions to slavery emerged from their understanding of the Presbyterian faith.  The collection’s geographic reach—encompassing the experiences of people from Europe, Africa, America, and the Pacific—filtered through the lens of Presbyterianism also highlights the global dimensions of slavery and the debates surrounding it. The institution and the challenges it presented, Faith and Slavery stresses, reflected less the peculiar conditions of a particular place and time, than the broader human condition as people attempt to understand and shape their world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents   List of Illustrations  Foreword  Introduction  Chapter 1: From James Montgomery to James Macbeth: The Development of Scottish        Antislavery Theology and Action 1756–1848 Iain Whyte  Chapter 2: Between Enlightenment and Evangelicalism: Presbyterian Diversity and                    American Slavery, 1700–1800 Gideon Mailer  Chapter 3: “Made of One Flesh?”:  Revisiting the 1787 Slavery Policy of the Synod        of New York and Philadelphia William Harrison Taylor  Chapter 4: “A Blessing or a Curse, Depending on How It Is Used”: David Ramsay’s        Presbyterian Antislavery Journey Peter C. Messer  Chapter 5: Transatlantic Family Journeys: From Antislavery Ethos to                    Pro-Slavery Ethic Nini Rodgers  Chapter 6: The Reformed Presbyterian Church and Antislavery in Nineteenth-Century  \t      America William J. Roulston  Chapter 7: Commerce and Christianity: Scottish Presbyterians, Slavery, and Islam  \t      in East Central Africa, 1870–1900 Richard Finlay  Chapter 8: Antislavery Work by the American Women of the Presbyterian                    Congo Mission Kimberly Hill  Chapter 9: “The Slave Trade in the New Hebrides”: Covenanting Ideology,       the New Hebrides Mission, and the Campaign against the Pacific Island        Labor Traffic Valerie Wallace  Epilogue:  Presbyterian Orthodoxies and Slavery Joseph S. Moore  About the Authors","brand":"Lehigh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041682522455,"sku":"9781611462012","price":75.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781611462012.jpg?v=1750951283","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/faith-and-slavery-in-the-presbyterian-diaspora-9781611462012","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}