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Apr 11, 2023 · Why did some American Protestant denominations experience slavery-related schism during the nineteenth century, while others appear to have been unaffected by slavery conflict?
Nov 18, 2022 · It is no surprise, then, that many American denominations split over the issue of slavery. Today the Southern Baptist Convention is the nation’s largest Protestant group, but the only reason we have a “Southern” Baptist Convention is that in 1845 they split from the Northern Baptists over slavery.
- Race and Religion
- ‘Anglo-Saxon Heritage’
- The ‘Other’
In 1835, French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville describedthe character of the U.S. as the result of “the spirit of religion and the spirit of liberty,” which he argued, “elsewhere have often been at war but in America have somehow been incorporated into one another and marvelously combined.” However, there’s a perpetual tension between the narrat...
From the Puritans to Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, the early leaders of the United States were steeped in a racial ideology of a divinely ordained Anglo-Saxon heritage, a romanticized account of the ancestral and cultural roots of inhabitants of England. They believed they were building a new nation with a divine purpose, a “new Israel” w...
Today, rising rates of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia remind America that religious minorities continue to face a social andpolitical climate of bias and discriminationthat marginalizes them as foreign or “other.” The old narrative of Anglo-Saxon America continues to feed notions that a “real” American citizen is essentially white and Protestant. S...
- Tiffany Puett
Jun 29, 2018 · Focusing mostly in the English and French Caribbean, with some forays into South Carolina and other North American slave colonies, Gerbner’s book most broadly traces the transition from planter “Protestant Supremacy” to what she calls “Christian Slavery.”
- Paul Harvey
- 2018
Protestantism in the Americas. European Protestants had continuous contact with Africans in the Americas from at least the docking of the first slave-trading ship in Virginia in 1619. In the seventeenth century, English and Dutch Protestants settled most of the eastern seaboard of North America.
Aug 1, 2008 · The slavery debates in the antebellum United States sparked a turning point in American theology. They forced moderately antislavery Protestants, including William Ellery Channing, Francis Wayland, and Horace Bushnell, to reconcile their contradictory loyalties to the Bible and to antislavery reform.
May 26, 2022 · For the majority of the early modern period, most Christian churches—both Catholic and Protestant—supported slavery and benefited from the institution. Even the Quakers (Society of Friends), who were leaders in the abolitionist movement, took a century to disown enslavers from their congregations.
