How Long to Read Sanctifying Slavery and Politics in South Carolina

How Long Does it Take to Read Sanctifying Slavery and Politics in South Carolina?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 14 minutes to read Sanctifying Slavery and Politics in South Carolina by Fred E Witzig

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

When Alexander Garden, a Scottish minister of the Church of England, arrived in South Carolina in 1720, he found a colony smoldering from the devastation of the Yamasee War and still suffering from economic upheaval, political factionalism, and rampant disease. It was also a colony turning enthusiastically toward plantation agriculture, made possible by African slave labor. In Sanctifying Slavery and Politics in South Carolina, the first published biography of Garden, Fred E. Witzig paints a vivid portrait of the religious leader and the South Carolina colony he helped shape. Shortly after his arrival, Garden, a representative of the bishop of London, became the rector of St. Philip's Church in Charleston, the first Anglican parish in the colony. The ambitious clergyman quickly married into a Charleston slave-trading family and allied himself with the political and social elite. From the pulpit Garden reinforced the social norms and economic demands of the southern planters and merchants, and he disciplined recalcitrant missionaries who dared challenge the prevailing social order. As a way of defending the morality of southern slaveholders, he found himself having to establish the first large-scale school for slaves in Charles Town in the 1740s. Garden also led a spirited—and largely successful—resistance to the Great Awakening evangelical movement championed by the revivalist minister George Whitefield, whose message of personal salvation and a more democratic Christianity was anathema to the social fabric of the slaveholding South, which continually feared a slave rebellion. As a minister Garden helped make slavery morally defensible in the eyes of his peers, giving the appearance that the spiritual obligations of his slaveholding and slave-trading friends were met as they all became extraordinarily wealthy. Witzig's lively cultural history—bolstered by numerous primary sources, maps, and illustrations—helps illuminate both the roots of the Old South and the Church of England's role in sanctifying slavery in South Carolina.

How long is Sanctifying Slavery and Politics in South Carolina?

Sanctifying Slavery and Politics in South Carolina by Fred E Witzig is 252 pages long, and a total of 63,504 words.

This makes it 85% the length of the average book. It also has 78% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Sanctifying Slavery and Politics in South Carolina Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 47 minutes to read Sanctifying Slavery and Politics in South Carolina aloud.

What Reading Level is Sanctifying Slavery and Politics in South Carolina?

Sanctifying Slavery and Politics in South Carolina is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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