The Rise of Christianity Among Captured Africans Beginning in the 17th
For my topic I would like to investigate the rise of Christianity in Western Africa and compare it to the Christian teachings, which were happening simultaneously in the United States, between Slave Masters and their Slaves. This topic will examine how Christianity was taught to Africans, heathens, as an effort to enlighten them of the preaching’s of the bible. It will look into why even though Christians were torturing the slaves they were successful in ‘enlightening’ and converting them. Further elaborating, it will explore the reasons why Slave Traders and Masters were able to convince Africans to convert. I will be using the first testament of the Bible, as a primary source, and examine it both from the mindset of a Slave Master and a Slave and see how the same passages were applicable to both understanding’s of Slavery and its existence.
Other Primary Sources will include:
Walker, David, and Peter P. Hinks. David Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State UP, 2000. Print.
“Freedomite”. Lament of the Slave. Palladlum of Liberty (Freedmen’s Newspaper). 1844. Print
For secondary sources I will use:
Gates, Henry Louis. The Classic Slave Narratives. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin, 1987. Print.
Raboteau, Albert J. Slave Religion : The “Invisible Institution” in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford, 2004. Print.
Padgett, Jeffrey K. “The Slave Trade.” The Slave Trade. Http://scholar.library.miami.edu/, n.d. Web. 16 Sept. 2013.