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A Theological Account of Nat TurnerIntroduction

A Theological Account of Nat Turner: Introduction [What does the slave do when faced with a perpetual and inherently violent system of bondage and slavery? How does the slave speak to God in this humiliating and dehumanizing condition? What are the prayers and hopes of the slave before the true and living God? Should the slave acquiesce to the violence in the name of redemptive suffering? Or should the slave resist and subvert the slave-master in nonviolent and peaceful ways? Or should the slave rise up against the slave-master in liberating and revolutionary counterviolence? What does God tell the slave to do? Nat Turner, a black slave born on October 2, 1800, the chattel property of Benjamin Turner, claimed that God told him to violently revolt against his slave-master in the name of Christ.1] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Theological Account of Nat TurnerIntroduction

Part of the Black Religion / Womanist Thought / Social Justice Book Series
Lampley, Karl W.
Springer Journals — Oct 28, 2015
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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
ISBN
978-1-349-45923-0
Pages
1 –19
DOI
10.1057/9781137322968_1
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Abstract

[What does the slave do when faced with a perpetual and inherently violent system of bondage and slavery? How does the slave speak to God in this humiliating and dehumanizing condition? What are the prayers and hopes of the slave before the true and living God? Should the slave acquiesce to the violence in the name of redemptive suffering? Or should the slave resist and subvert the slave-master in nonviolent and peaceful ways? Or should the slave rise up against the slave-master in liberating and revolutionary counterviolence? What does God tell the slave to do? Nat Turner, a black slave born on October 2, 1800, the chattel property of Benjamin Turner, claimed that God told him to violently revolt against his slave-master in the name of Christ.1]

Published: Oct 28, 2015

Keywords: Structural Violence; Christian Theology; White Supremacy; Revolutionary Action; Black Slave

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