Cutting edge: Christian imperialism and the transatlantic slave trade

Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 127-134

  Cannon, Katie Geneva ^a  

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EID: 60950201818     PISSN: 87554178     EISSN: 15533913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2979/FSR.2008.24.1.127     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. M. D. D. Newitt, Prince Henry and Portuguese Imperialism (Salisbury, Rhodesia: Central Africa Historical Association, 1972).
2. Ogbu Kalu, "Christianity in Africa," in Christianity: The Complete Guide, ed. John Bowden (London: Continuum, 2005), 2-12.
3. See John Baur, 2000 Years of Christianity in Africa (Nairobi: Paulines, 1994);
4. Adrian Hastings, The Church in Africa, 1450-1950 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994);
5. Robin Blackburn, The Making of New World Slavery: From Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 (New York: Verso, 1997).
6. Peter E. Russell, Prince Henry "The Navigator": A Life (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000);
7. Richard Henry Major, The Life of Prince Henry of Portugal, Surnamed the Navigator: and Its Results (London: Asher & Co., 1868);
8. Leonard E. Fisher, Prince Henry the Navigator (New York: Macmillan, 1990).
9. Modupe Labode, "Christianity: Missionaries in Africa," in Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, ed. Anthony Kwame Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr. (New York: Basic Books, Civitas, 1999), 431.
10. See Rod Brown's achingly vivid paintings and startling image of enslaved Africans stacked seven-high in the hold of a ship in Julius Lester and Rod Brown, From Slave Ship to Freedom Road (New York: Dial, 1998).
11. Also, Stephanie E. Smallwood, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007);
12. Marcus Rediker, Slave Ship: A Human History (New York: Viking Press, 2007).
13. H. K. McArthur, "Parousia," in The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, 5 vols. (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1962), 3:659.
14. Mercy Amba Oduyoye stated this quotation when she dialogued with seminarians and faculty during the meeting of the All African Conference of Churches in Addis Abba, Ethiopia, in September 1997. In order to substantiate this statement Dr. Oduyoye encouraged us to read her book Hearing and Knowing: Theological Reflections on Christianity in Africa (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1986).
15. Labode, "Christianity," 431.
16. David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006),
17. David Brion Davis, In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and our Heritage of Slavery (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001).
18. James A. Rawley, The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History (New York: Norton, 1981);
19. Forrest Wood, The Arrogance of Faith: Christianity and Race in America from the Colonial Era to the Twentieth Century (New York: Knopf, 1990).
20. Joseph R. Washington Jr., Anti-blackness in English Religion, 1500-1800 (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1984);
21. Winthrop D. Jordan, White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 (Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, 1969);
22. Robert E. Hood, Begrimed and Black: Christian Traditions on Blacks and Blackness (Minneapolis: Augsburg/Fortress, 1994).
23. George D. Kelsey, Racism and the Christian Understanding of Man (New York: Scribner, 1965).
24. Albert J. Raboteau, Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978).
25. Arthur O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea (1936; reprint, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971).
26. See Kelly Brown Douglas, What's Faith Got to Do with It? Black Bodies/Christian Souls (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2005).
27. The phrase "hewers of wood and drawers of water" is found in the Book of Joshua 9:27. It is a concept that I have heard preached in the black church community all of my life. I discuss its theological significance in my chapter "Transformative Grace," in Feminist and Womanist Essays in Reformed Dogmatics, ed. Amy Plantinga Pauw and Serene Jones (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006), 150.
28. David M. Goldenberg, The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003);
29. Don Cameron Allen, The Legend of Noah (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1963);
30. Thomas Virgil Peterson, Ham and Japheth (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1978;
31. Hilrie Shelton Smith, In His Image But . . . (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1972);
32. Stephan R. Haynes, Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification of American Slavery (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).
33. John Henrik Clarke, "Introduction," in Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior, ed. Marimba Ani (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1994), xv-xvi.
34. Delores S. Williams, "ReImagining Truth: Traversing the Feminist Christian Backlash," The Other Side Magazine (May-June 1994): 53-54.