'A nation born to slavery': missionaries and racial discourse in seventeenth-century French Antilles.Abstract: Sue Peabody, "'A Nation Born to Slavery': Missionaries and Racial Discourse in Seventeenth-Century French Antilles" Catholic missionaries accompanied the first French colonial French Colonial architecture was an American domestic archtectural style. It was most popular in the American South in states such as Louisiana.[1] Characteristics ventures into the Antilles in the seventeenth century and reported on their experiences in manuscript and published accounts. The first generation of these accounts, from the 1640s and 1650s, focused primarily on Carib Indians; where African slaves were mentioned, it was in the most denigrating den·i·grate tr.v. den·i·grat·ed, den·i·grat·ing, den·i·grates 1. To attack the character or reputation of; speak ill of; defame. 2. terms. As the plantation Plantation, city (1990 pop. 66,692), Broward co., SE Fla., a residential suburb of Fort Lauderdale; inc. 1953. The city has grown rapidly along with the development of S Florida. system took hold and the number of forced African immigrants increased and as Caribs made their resistance to Catholic conversion clear in prolonged pro·long tr.v. pro·longed, pro·long·ing, pro·longs 1. To lengthen in duration; protract. 2. To lengthen in extent. warfare, missionaries shifted their attention to the increasingly creolized slave population. Later missionary accounts, from the 1660s-1680s, portray African descended slaves in much more positive, if paternalistic pa·ter·nal·ism n. A policy or practice of treating or governing people in a fatherly manner, especially by providing for their needs without giving them rights or responsibilities. , terms. For the missionaries, religious conformity remained the overriding evaluative measure; black slaves could be "whitened" through conversion to the Catholic faith. |
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