Christian Slavery
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Catherine Gerbner's Christian Slavery investigates how colonial laws and ideologies linked Christian identity with legal status, shaping practices of slavery and conversion in early modern colonies.
The book analyzes the late seventeenth-century shift in colonial slave laws from religion-based criteria to racially based definitions, exploring the motivations and consequences of this transformation.
Gerbner highlights how conversion and the possibility of emancipation for baptized slaves led colonial authorities to reconfigure slavery along more permanent, racialized lines.
The study illuminates the legal, religious, and economic factors that produced enduring systems of racial slavery in the Atlantic world.
By situating legal changes within broader cultural and religious debates, the book contributes to understanding the historical formation of race and slavery.
The book analyzes the late seventeenth-century shift in colonial slave laws from religion-based criteria to racially based definitions, exploring the motivations and consequences of this transformation.
Gerbner highlights how conversion and the possibility of emancipation for baptized slaves led colonial authorities to reconfigure slavery along more permanent, racialized lines.
The study illuminates the legal, religious, and economic factors that produced enduring systems of racial slavery in the Atlantic world.
By situating legal changes within broader cultural and religious debates, the book contributes to understanding the historical formation of race and slavery.
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