God's Image in Ebony
African Achievement, Christian Equality, and Victorian Arguments Against Slavery and Racial PrejudiceBy H. G. Adams
Length9h 12m
About this audiobook
In *God's Image in Ebony*, H. G. Adams confronts the religious and intellectual foundations of racial prejudice by insisting upon the full humanity, moral agency, and spiritual dignity of people of African descent. Written in the earnest, persuasive idiom of nineteenth-century evangelical abolitionism, the book combines biblical reasoning, moral exhortation, and illustrative historical reflection. Its title invokes the doctrine that all humanity bears the divine image, transforming a theological proposition into a direct challenge to slavery, colonial hierarchy, and the racial assumptions embedded in respectable Victorian culture. The work belongs to the tradition of Christian antislavery writing that sought not merely to condemn cruelty but to reform the conscience of its readership. Adams was an English writer and reformer whose interests in religion, education, biography, and social justice shaped his literary career. Writing during an era when abolitionist arguments increasingly contested both the economics and the theology of slavery, he uses accessible prose to reach readers beyond specialist or political circles. His method reflects the conviction that moral knowledge, sympathetically presented, could awaken public responsibility and correct inherited prejudice. This book will interest readers of abolitionist literature, Victorian religious writing, Black Atlantic history, and the cultural history of antiracism. It remains valuable as evidence of how Christian language could be mobilized against racial oppression, while inviting modern readers to examine the possibilities and limitations of reformist rhetoric.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length9 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 10, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Why Lincoln Laughed (Unabridged) (Annotated)
2God's Image in Ebony
3Preface.
4A Short Sketch of the Past History and the Present Position of the Slavery Question in America.
5Chapter I. Introductory.
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6Chapter II. Biographical Sketches.
7Chapter III. Biographical Sketches.
8Chapter IV. Biographical Sketches.
9Chapter V. Biographical Sketches.
10Chapter VI. Biographical Sketches.
11Chapter VII. Voices from the Past.
12Chapter VIII. Living Witnesses.
13Concluding Chapter of Additional Evidence, Communicated in a Letter to the Editor by Wilson Armistead.
14Anti-Slavery Lines, Suggested By Baird's Picture, Entitled 'A. Scene on the Coast of Africa.'
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