{"product_id":"proslavery-priest-b-w-higman-9789766402556","title":"Proslavery Priest: The Atlantic World of John Lindsay, 1729-1788","description":"Child of the Church of Scotland and product of the Scottish Enlightenment, John Lindsay was an ordained minister of the Church of England, serving church and state in the British Atlantic. The second half of his life was spent in Jamaica, where - in the midst of slave society - he had leisure to live a life of ideas and develop literary and philosophical interests. As well as sermons, he published a novel, a poem and an account of a voyage to West Africa. At his death, Lindsay left manuscript sermons, a natural history of Jamaica and a proslavery polemic. These texts address central questions of eighteenth-century British imperial thought. How might faith and reason sit together, and the laws of nature with the laws of God? How might conjecture, hypothesis, speculation and curiosity fit with the authority of scripture? What does it mean to be human? How could liberty coexist with slavery?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e B. W. Higman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9766402558\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789766402556\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of the West Indies Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.30h x 7.10w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e IndieFab awards - Gold Medal Winner","brand":"B. W. Higman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44079680749823,"sku":"9789766402556","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_13f63014-31e4-471c-ad9f-f25152e1e1fd.jpg?v=1685482526","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/proslavery-priest-b-w-higman-9789766402556","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}