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Identifier	Thesis 1649
Author	Hughes, Rebecca C
Title	British missionaries in Barbados (1820-1834) : agents of cultural change / Rebecca C. Hughes
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2001
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	Most historians argue that missionaries have been complicit agents of the colonizing powers, paving the way for more complete domination of the indigenous peoples living in the colonized areas. Yet there are a few historians who maintain the missionaries' role was less manipulative; missionaries provided those they evangelized with the opportunities to gain education, new ideas, and a new religion. This thesis found missionaries in the Caribbean are more accurately described as agents of change rather than agents of the colonizing power. Missionaries to the Caribbean differed from those in other colonies in that they interacted with the white colonists and the slaves since no indigenous peoples lived there. In Barbados there were three different British missionary organizations, and they had diverse experiences with the white planters. The planters despised the Methodists, were ambivalent to the Anglicans, and accepted the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (hereafter SPG) as one of their own. This thesis examined the ideas and practices of the British missionary groups in Barbados between the years of 1819 to 1834 in order to understand the scope of their missions and why the Methodists and the Anglicans differed from the SPG to such an extent that they infuriated the planters. What became evident is that while all three worked to convert the slaves and had similar theology, the Methodists and the Anglicans adopted Enlightenment thought into their Christianity. The SPG was unable or unwilling to adopt similar Enlightenment principles because they were deeply invested in their sugar plantation estate and the college it financed. The concepts of freedom, progress, reason, and happiness were contrary to the plantocratic society of which they were a part. The Methodists and Anglicans, however, blended these Enlightenment ideals with Christian principles in their sermons and preached these new ideas to both planters and slaves. Thus, even though they did not preach the end of slavery, their ideas, both religious and secular, foretold its imminent end. Despite persecution by the colonial authorities, these two groups continued to promote the new concepts. It is likely that the spread of their ideas ultimately prepared Barbados for slave emancipation because they included basic religious rights for the slaves, such as education. The transition from slavery to emancipation in Barbados was peaceable, and undoubtedly, the missionaries' work contributed to the smooth change.
Subject	Missionaries -- Barbados Missions, British -- Barbados
Department	Department of History
Advisor	Williams, Louise Blakeney
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	50656713
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