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This chapter analyses slavery and missions together for the first time in Edwardsean scholarship. From 1731 to 1758 Edwards not only owned slaves but also advocated missions among Native Americans. He helped found the Stockbridge mission then assumed its pulpit. Immersed in a missionary network, he wrote David Brainerd’s biography and launched Gideon Hawley’s lifetime of mission labour. Many Indians were enslaved after King Philip’s War; many fell into bondage or servitude in the mid-eighteenth century. Native Americans in Edwards’s time feared enslavement. The Atlantic slave system swelled in the mid-eighteenth century. Slaveholder, yet opponent of the slave trade, Edwards developed typological arguments that criticized English settlers for their depredations against Native Americans. In this, Edwards honed a theological instrument later wielded by abolitionists. Edwardsean typology undermined biblical proslavery arguments, clearing a path for modern abolitionism as opposition to enslavement in all times and places.

Author

John Saillant

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN