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- Title
The Worst Kind of Thievery? The Puritan Servant-Slave Social Ethic in Richard Baxter and William Gouge.
- Authors
KUIVENHOVEN, MAARTEN
- Abstract
The article offers a look at the Puritan view of servanthood and slavery demonstrated by Puritans Richard Baxter and William Gouge which were based on scriptural injunctions. Baxter is presented to have made distinctions between servanthood and slavery but offers no clear call to end slavery. Gouge is cited to find the master-servant relationship even in the fourth commandment, and considers the relationship more rigid according to one's calling by God within societal structure.
- Subjects
SLAVERY; PURITANS; BAXTER, Richard, 1615-1691; GOUGE, William M., 1796-1863; PURITAN movements
- Publication
Puritan Reformed Journal, 2013, Vol 5, Issue 2, p131
- ISSN
1946-8652
- Publication type
Article