206 Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World

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Liz Covart

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🗓️ 2 October 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Between 1500 and the 1860s, Europeans and Americans forcibly removed approximately 12 million African people from the African continent, transported them to the Americas, and enslaved them.

Why did Europeans and Americans enslave Africans? How did they justify their actions?

Katherine Gerbner, an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Minnesota and author of Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World, leads us on an exploration of ways Christianity influenced early ideas about slavery and its practice.

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0:00.0	Ben Franklin's World is a production of the
0:02.5	O'Mohandro Institute.
0:04.0	Welcome to Ben Franklin's World,
0:08.0	Podcasts About Early American History with Liz Covert.
0:11.0	The study of history is key to understanding who we are and how we can affect the better future.
0:17.0	Ben Franklin's world will introduce you to historical people and
0:24.3	now here's your host Liz Kolar.
0:27.1	Hello and welcome to episode 2006 of Ben Franklin's world
0:31.7	the podcast dedicated to helping you, learn more about how the people
0:36.2	and events of our early American past have shaped the present day world we live in.
0:40.8	Between 1500 and the 1860s, Europeans and Americans forcibly removed approximately 12 million African people from the African continent,
0:49.0	transported them to the Americas, and enslaved them.
0:52.0	But why did Europeans and Americans enslave them.
0:52.8	But why did Europeans enslave Africans?
0:56.4	How did they justify their actions?
0:59.0	That's what we're going to explore today, as we take a look at some of the origins of the rules governing the practice of slavery in the early modern Atlantic world.
1:06.0	Specifically, we're going to explore how Christianity influenced early ideas about slavery and its practice.
1:12.0	Our guide for this exploration is Catholic. influenced early ideas about slavery and its practice.
1:13.4	Our guide for this exploration is Catherine Gerberner, an assistant professor of history at the University
1:18.0	of Minnesota and the author of Christian slavery, conversion and race and the Protestant Atlantic world.
1:24.0	Now, as we dive into this very long and complicated history
1:28.2	between slavery and Christianity, Catherine reveals,
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