How To Make A Negro Christian[What will be the benefit of giving enslaved Afrikans christianity?]"It is a matter of astonishment, that there should be any objection at all; for the duty of giving religious instruction to our Negroes, and the benefits flowing from it, should be obvious to all. The benefits, we conceive to be incalculably great, and [one] of them [is] there will be greater subordination . . .amongst the Negroes (page 52)." |
Contents
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION OF THE NEGRO A SERMON | 28 |
COMMENTARY | 66 |
SUGGESTIONS ON THE RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION | 75 |
COMMENTARY103 | 103 |
BEGINNING THE RECONNECTION TO | 117 |
AFRIKAN SPIRITUAL RECONNECTION 101 | 127 |
CONSIDERATIONS FOR PARTICIPATING WITH | 133 |
APPENDIX A CATECHISM OF SCRIPTURE DOCTRINE | 139 |
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