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Foreword | vii | |
The Agony of Asar: an introduction to the life and work of Capitein | 1 | |
I. | A life: servitude and aftermath | 7 |
1. | An orphan in the Netherlands | 7 |
2. | Unhappy returns: Elmina, 1742-1747 | 11 |
3. | Potentially parallel lives: Equiano and Capitein | 17 |
II. | The West Indies Company and the Dutch slave trade | 19 |
1. | The birth and slow demise of a seaborne empire | 19 |
2. | White man's burden: Christian mission | 33 |
III. | Capitein's writings in overview | 38 |
1. | Missiology | 38 |
2. | A scholar and an African | 43 |
IV. | Capitein's dissertation in context | 56 |
1. | A history of Ham's curse: Christianity and slavery | 56 |
2. | Antislavery sentiment in the Netherlands | 66 |
V. | Conclusions | 73 |
Defining slavery: ownership and social death | 73 | |
Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein: Political-theological dissertation examining the question: Is slavery compatible with Christian freedom or not? | 79 | |
Preface: To the reader | 81 | |
Chapter 1 | Which defines slavery and proposes the subject of inquiry | 95 |
Chapter 2 | Which explores the ancient origin of slavery and shows that nearly all societies made use of it | 97 |
Chapter 3 | Which proves that slavery and Christianity are not antithetical | 103 |
Appendix 1. | Two prefaces to Capitein's translation of religious texts | 133 |
[The translator] to the Christian reader | 133 | |
The publisher to the reader | 134 | |
Appendix 2. | African intellectuals in 18th-century Europe | 136 |
Appendix 3. | Capitein and his world: a select bibliography | 153 |
Abbreviations used in the endnotes | 157 | |
Notes to the introduction | 158 | |
Notes to Capitein's dissertation | 171 | |
Index | 181 | |
Maps | ||
Map 1. | The Atlantic world in the early 18th century | 22 |
Map 2. | The Guinea Coast | 22 |
Map 3. | The Netherlands | 23 |
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