Proslavery priest : the Atlantic world of John Lindsay, 1729-1788 / B.W. Higman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Higman, B. W., 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lindsay, John, 1729-1788.

Lindsay, John.

Church of England--Clergy--Biography.

Church of England.

Clergy.

Slavery--Justification.

History.

Slaveholders.

Jamaica.

Slaveholders--Jamaica--18th century--Biography.

Slavery--Justification--History--18th century.

Slavery.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 334 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits(some color), maps ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Kingston, Jamaica : University of West Indies Press, 2011.

Summary:

Higman (history, U. of the West Indies, and history, Australian National U.) examines the life of Scottish native Reverend John Lindsay. Ordained as a clergyman in the Church of England, Lindsay lived the second half of his life in Jamaica, serving as rector of several parishes. He also married into Jamaican plantocracy and became a slave-owner, seeing no conflict between his ownership of people and his Christianity. Based on extensive research of Lindsay's written works--sermons, a natural history of Jamaica, a proslavery polemic, a novel, poetry--the biography focuses on the intellectual world of Lindsay and his desire to understand the world around him not only in religious terms but also within the framework of 18th-century philosophy and science. Distributed by Longleaf Services, Inc. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-320) and index.

ISBN:

9789766402556

9766402558

OCLC:

756577428