@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt14btj1x.3,
 ISBN = {9781628461985},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt14btj1x.3},
 abstract = {This project began on a rainy London summer afternoon in 2008 while I was carrying out research in the Fulham Papers and the Records of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG), both at the Lambeth Palace Library. In 1726, letters between the bishop of London and various Anglican clergymen in the American colonies surveyed planters’ attitudes toward missionary work among slaves.³ Most of the correspondence indicated that the planters opposed catechizing their slaves, as there had long been questions over whether English law permitted the permanent enslavement of Christians. This was all connected to the process of},
 bookauthor = {JESSICA M. PARR},
 booktitle = {Inventing George Whitefield: Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a Religious Icon},
 pages = {3--10},
 publisher = {University Press of Mississippi},
 title = {INTRODUCTION},
 year = {2015}
}