Clause 4 urged owners and their agents to instruct enslaved people in Christianity and required parish clergy to baptize adults deemed ready and infants within six months of birth. Clergy were also to attend sick enslaved people when spiritual aid was requested. This was a colonial program of religious oversight, not evidence that African-derived spiritual practice disappeared or that religious instruction meant freedom. (Consolidated Slave Act, clause(s) 4.)
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What religious instruction did clause 4 prescribe?
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The act called for Christian instruction and baptism by parish clergy, while imposing no emancipation.
The act called for Christian instruction and baptism by parish clergy, while imposing no emancipation.
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The act called for Christian instruction and baptism by parish clergy, while imposing no emancipation.