Josh Thompson

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In an irony that demonstrated both black Virginians' spiritual independence and white Anglicans' enduring lack of interest in black Christianity, baptized slaves planned their insurrection for Sunday morning, when whites would be at church without them. It is an arresting image: whites meeting serenely to read through Morning Prayer and perhaps to hear a sermon or to receive the sacrament, totally uninterested in the spiritual lives of their bondmen-who even at that moment were acting on their own faith and leaving their chains behind. These Africans, among whom probably ranked some Kongolese ...more
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The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia
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