Katharine Gerbner has provided readers a much-needed treatment of the relationship between Protestant Christianity and the emergence of White Supremacist racial ideology in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Scholars have long perceived the general outlines of the story that unfolds in Gerbner's book, but no one has highlighted the connective tissues with as much care and detail. With her book, it is now much easier to see what we once could only imagine to be there: Christians (Protestants in this telling) played a singular role in the articulation of a racial ideology that would eventually become a widespread rationale for slavery throughout much of the Atlantic world. There are surprises in this tale, such as the seemingly paradoxical role played by historical actors who scholars often credit with being on the right side of history—the Quakers and Moravians, for example, who are typically cast as characters intent on destabilizing slavery. Not so, according to Gerbner. In this way, she does marvelously well to show how Protestant Christianity was never really above the fray and that those we might like to imagine were the progenitors of an eventual antislavery critique were also critical conduits in the development of modern-day racism.

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霸权与美国奴隶制的起源

凯瑟琳·格布纳 (Katharine Gerbner) 为读者提供了对新教基督教与 17 世纪和 18 世纪大西洋世界白人至上主义种族意识形态出现之间关系的急需处理。长期以来，学者们一直在了解 Gerbner 书中展开的故事的大致轮廓，但没有人如此关注和详细地强调结缔组织。有了她的书，现在更容易看到我们曾经只能想象存在的东西：基督徒（在这个故事中是新教徒）在种族意识形态的表达中发挥了独特的作用，这种意识形态最终将成为奴隶制的普遍理由。大西洋世界的。这个故事里有惊喜，例如历史人物扮演的看似矛盾的角色，学者们通常认为他们站在历史的正确一边——例如，贵格会教徒和摩拉维亚教徒，他们通常被塑造成意图破坏奴隶制稳定的角色。根据格布纳的说法，并非如此。通过这种方式，她非常出色地展示了新教基督教如何从未真正超越战斗，而我们可能想像的那些最终反奴隶制批评的祖先也是现代种族主义发展的关键渠道。