How To Make A Negro Christian
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How To Make A Negro Christian: The Religious Instruction of the Negro PDF
Read this historical document as a study of racialized religious instruction, slavery, power, and faith in the United States.
The text presents arguments made by some slaveholders and clergy who believed Christian instruction could encourage obedience and social control among enslaved people. It offers material for researching how religion was used, contested, and interpreted within the history of American slavery.
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- Historical source on religious instruction, slavery, race, and power
- Useful for African American history, Black religious history, theology, education history, and the history of American slavery
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Content and research note: This work contains racist and dehumanizing historical language and reflects the interests of people who defended slavery. It should be read critically alongside the testimony, writings, religious traditions, and scholarship of enslaved and formerly enslaved people.