Awakened antislavery Christianity was suppressed by colonial authorities

Evidence

In awakening souls, passionate evangelicals like Edwards spoke about human equality (in soul) and the capability of everyone for conversion. “I am God’s servant as they are mine, and much more inferior to God than my servant is to me,” the slaveholding Edwards explained in 1741. But the proslavery Great Awakening did not extend to the South Carolina plantation of Hugh Bryan, who was awakened into antislavery thought. Bryan proclaimed “sundry enthusiastic Prophecies of the Destruction of Charles Town and Deliverance of the Negroes from servitude” in 1740. His praying captives stopped laboring. One woman was overheard “singing a spiritual at the water’s edge,” like so many other unidentified antiracist, antislavery Christian women and men who started singing in those years. South Carolina authorities reprimanded Bryan. They wanted evangelists preaching a racist Christianity for submission, not an antiracist Christianity for liberation. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 192

Categorization

• XREF: A counterexample candidate for the reader testing ‘ideas precede policy’ — here an antiracist idea emerges from revival, and policy (state reprimand) suppresses it, showing the state shaping religious ideology.
• QUESTION: Does Bryan’s case count as ideas-before-policy (the revival awakened him and his captives before the state acted), a test case against Kendi’s inversion?