Religious Appropriation of the Slave Trade: Conversion in Christianity and Islam at the Dawn of the Trans-Atlantic and Sub-Saharan Slavery
In an attempt to better understand the trans-Atlantic and sub-Saharan slave trade, religion’s use of conversion by Christians and Muslims alike, has instituted and justified slavery. In this article, I explore different religious (Conjuration, Islam, and Christianity) practices by the enslaved Afric...
| Published in: | Journal of black religious thought |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2022
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Journal of black religious thought
Year: 2022, Volume: 1, Issue: 2, Pages: 247-263 |
| Further subjects: | B
Africa
B Religion B Slave trade B trans-Atlantic B Justification B Conversion |
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| Summary: | In an attempt to better understand the trans-Atlantic and sub-Saharan slave trade, religion’s use of conversion by Christians and Muslims alike, has instituted and justified slavery. In this article, I explore different religious (Conjuration, Islam, and Christianity) practices by the enslaved African people when they were forcibly displaced and resettled to the New World. I also examine how the enslaved African people reused religion to fight for their freedom. |
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| ISSN: | 2772-7955 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of black religious thought
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/27727963-01020007 |