Christian Slavery eco-justice Author Elizabeth George Speare won

Author Elizabeth George Speare won the 1959 Newbery Medal for this portrayal of a heroine whom readers will admire for her unwavering sense of truth as well as her infinite capacity to love

The 2016 JAMES BACKHOUSE LECTURE

ecological awareness

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Author: Daneen Akers

Christian Slavery eco-justice Author Elizabeth George Speare wonChristian Slavery: Conversion and Race in Protestant Atlantic World (Early American Studies) Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? In Christian Slavery, Katharine Gerbner contends that religion was fundamental to the development of both slavery and race in the Protestant Atlantic world. Slave owners in the Caribbean and elsewhere established governments