Christian conversion prepared some slaves for passive resistance, others for revolt.

Evidence

The influence of Sharpe and his Baptist co-conspirators, then, was largely confined to those slaves whose conversion to Christianity had prepared them for passive resistance and sacrifice. Some slaves within that tradition, however, found such a position unacceptable. They chose instead armed revolt. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 809

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Religious conversion made slaveholders more cruel, not less — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 246; Slave Bibles excised liberation passages while keeping obedience commands — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 225