This is very interesting. If anyone attends please give a report on the presentation. One of my ancestors, Rawley Pinn attended church with whites in Amherst County (around 1790), before founding Fairmount Baptist Church. The Baptist were targeted by other Christian churches for their anti-slavery beliefs. I believe my ancestor was attending Keys Church before forming his own church. Since no records were kept it is difficult to document who was where, and when. I read a book titled, Tuckahoes & Cohees, which detailed the Baptists in the area of Amherst & Nelson Counties.
Anita
> Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 14:42:11 -0400
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> Subject: 6/3: LVA Book Talk - _The Origins of Proslavery Christianity_ by Charles Irons
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> Book Talk at the Library of Virginia
>
> Tuesday, June 3, 2008
>
> _The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial
> and Antebellum Virginia_ by Charles Irons
>
> Time: Noon–1 PM
>
> FREE EVENT
>
> In the colonial and antebellum South, black and white evangelicals frequently
> prayed, sang, and worshipped together. Even though white evangelicals
> claimed spiritual fellowship with those of African descent, they nonetheless
> emerged as the most effective defenders of race-based slavery. As Charles
> Irons persuasively argues, white evangelicals' ideas about slavery grew
> directly out of their interactions with black evangelicals. Set in Virginia, the
> largest slaveholding state and the hearth of the southern evangelical
> movement, this book draws from church records, denominational newspapers,
> slave narratives, and private letters and diaries to illuminate the dynamic
> relationship between whites and blacks within the evangelical fold. Irons
> reveals that when whites theorized about their moral responsibilities toward
> slaves, they thought first of their relationships with bondmen in their own
> churches. Thus, African American evangelicals inadvertently shaped the
> nature of the proslavery argument. When they chose which churches to join,
> used the procedures set up for church discipline, rejected colonization, or built
> quasi-independent congregations, for example, black churchgoers spurred their
> white coreligionists to further develop the religious defense of slavery.
>
> Charles F. Irons is assistant professor of history at Elon University.
>
> The Library of Virginia is located at 800 East Broad Street in downtown
> Richmond. Free parking is available underneath the building.
>
> _The Origins of Proslavery Christianity_ is available for purchase in the Virginia
> Shop at the Library of Virginia:
> http://www.lva.virginia.gov/whatwedo/shop.htm .
>
> www.lva.virginia.gov
> 804.692.3500
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