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The same happen in USA + Africa..Christian missionaries!

Abstract
There were Africans in New England before there were Puritans there, and by 1700 they numbered about 1,000 out of a total population of 90,000. Roughly half of them lived in Massachusetts, and were concentrated in Boston and the coastal towns. Puritans actively participated in the trafficking of enslaved persons, importing Africans from the West Indies and sometimes selling native American prisoners overseas.

Cotton Mather’s household contained enslaved Negro servants, and his congregation at the Second (or North) Church included both merchants of slavery and persons of African descent. The pamphlet reprinted here appeared in 1706 without his name, but his authorship of it was generally known. It calls on those who held people in slavery to educate their “servants” in the Christian religion, to treat them justly and kindly, and to accept them as spiritual brethren. It includes two catechisms and other instructional materials. It advances both spiritual and pragmatic arguments: the Christian has a moral responsibility for the souls of those in danger, and the Christianized servant is more profitable to his master.

Mather’s style in this work is (for him) unusually plain-spoken and direct. He quotes only one church father (Chrysostom), one classical philosopher (Cato), and one modern historian (Acosta). Moreover, his language seems particularly fresh, almost contemporary: “Man, Thy Negro is thy Neighbour. … Yea, if thou dost grant, That God hath made of one Blood, all Nations of men, he is thy Brother too.”—and, at another point, “… say of it, as it is.”

The electronic text presented here was transcribed from the first edition, printed at Boston in 1706. A very few notes have been included and also a list of typographical errors corrected.

https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/etas/28/

The Negro Christianized. An Essay to Excite and
Assist that Good Work, the Instruction of NegroServants in Christianity (1706)

Cotton Mather
The Negro Christianized (1706)
There were Africans in New England before there were Puritans
there, and by 1700 they numbered about 1,000 out of a total population of 90,000. Roughly half of them lived in Massachusetts,
and were concentrated in Boston and the coastal towns. Puritans
actively participated in the trafficking of enslaved persons, importing Africans from the West Indies and sometimes selling native American prisoners overseas.
Cotton Mather’s household contained enslaved Negro servants, and his congregation at the Second (or North) Church included both merchants of slavery and persons of African descent.
The pamphlet reprinted here appeared in 1706 without his name,
but his authorship of it was generally known. It calls on those who
held people in slavery to educate their “servants” in the Christian
religion, to treat them justly and kindly, and to accept them as
spiritual brethren. It includes two catechisms and other instructional materials. It advances both spiritual and pragmatic arguments: the Christian has a moral responsibility for the souls of
those in danger, and the Christianized servant is more profitable
to his master.
Mather’s style in this work is (for him) unusually plain-spoken
and direct. He quotes only one church father (Chrysostom), one
classical philosopher (Cato), and one modern historian (Acosta).
Moreover, his language seems particularly fresh, almost contemporary: “Man, Thy Negro is thy Neighbour. … Yea, if thou dost
grant, That God hath made of one Blood, all Nations of men, he is thy
Brother too.”—and, at another point, “… say of it, as it is.”
The electronic text presented here was transcribed from the
first edition, printed at Boston in 1706. A very few notes have
been included and also a list of typographical errors corrected.