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The Economy of Evangelism in the Colonial American South

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dc.contributor.advisorRobert Cox
dc.contributor.advisorJennifer Heuer
dc.contributor.advisorJohn Higginson
dc.contributor.authorCarroll, Julia
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.contributor.departmentHistory
dc.date2024-03-28T20:10:35.000
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T18:21:21Z
dc.date.available2024-04-26T18:21:21Z
dc.date.submittedMay
dc.date.submitted2017
dc.description.abstractEighteenth-century Methodist evangelism supported, perpetuated, and promoted slavery as requisite for a productive economy in the colonial American South. Religious thought of the First Great Awakening emerged alongside a colonial economy increasingly reliant on chattel slavery for its prosperity. The records of well-traveled celebrity minister and provocateur of the Anglican tradition, George Whitefield, suggest how Calvinist-Methodist evangelicals viewed slavery as necessary to supporting colonial ministerial efforts. Whitefield’s absorption of and immersion into American culture is revealed in his owning a plantation, portraying a willingness to sacrifice the mobility of the disfranchised for widespread consumption of evangelical thought. A side effect of this was free and formerly enslaved individuals of African descent gained direct access to itinerancy in the post-Revolutionary Atlantic world, as evidenced by the multi-racial ministerial network of Whitefield’s proslavery benefactor, Selina Hastings. Paradoxically, southern evangelicalism appealed to the disfranchised while perpetuating slavery as a socially normative, religiously-sanctioned institution.
dc.description.degreeMaster of Arts (M.A.)
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7275/10008715
dc.identifier.orcidN/A
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/33517
dc.relation.urlhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1539&context=masters_theses_2&unstamped=1
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subjectevangelism
dc.subjectslavery
dc.subjectbethesda
dc.subjectwhitefield
dc.subjecthastings
dc.subjectmarrant
dc.subjectAfrican American Studies
dc.subjectChristianity
dc.subjectEconomic History
dc.subjectEthics in Religion
dc.subjectHistory of Christianity
dc.subjectHistory of Religion
dc.subjectMissions and World Christianity
dc.subjectNew Religious Movements
dc.subjectOther American Studies
dc.subjectRegional Economics
dc.subjectUnited States History
dc.titleThe Economy of Evangelism in the Colonial American South
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