An Enslaver's Guide to Slavery Reform: William Dunlop's 1690 Proposals to Christianize Slaves in the British Atlantic

When it was first brought to light in 2010, an anonymously authored, unpublished document from 1690, Proposals for the propagating of the Christian Religion, and Converting of Slaves whether Negroes or Indians in the English plantations, appeared to support claims for an emerging humanitarian sensib...

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Main Author: Moore, Peter N. 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2022
In: Church history
Year: 2022, Volume: 91, Issue: 2, Pages: 264-285
Further subjects:B William Dunlop
B Indian slave trade
B Stuarts Town
B Christian Slavery
B Covenanters
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