Slave-owning theologians justified the lash as biblically warranted parental discipline
Evidence
The theological apparatus that produced and sustained this operational practice merits specific attention. Across the Atlantic slave system, slave-owning Christian theologians — Catholic in the Iberian and French colonies, Protestant in the British and Dutch — articulated explicit defenses of corporal correction of enslaved Africans as a form of biblically-warranted parental discipline. The slave-owner stood in a paterfamilias relation to the enslaved household, the argument ran, and was therefore authorized to discipline its members with the rod, as Proverbs prescribed. — , The Rod and the Child, 4388
Categorization
- XREF: The paterfamilias disciplinary frame echoes the domine/Domostroi logic of Episode 44 and anticipates the Dobson-Pearl household authority framework of Episode 43. — connects to: Religious justifications for slavery used curses to keep converts enslaved — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 118; Doctrinal texts are post-hoc justifications for structural causes of corporal punishment, not causes themselves — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 4203; Religious traditions framed child corporal punishment as love, not violence — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 8173 (+4 more)
Related
- Imported household theology amplified an already-intense post-colonial disciplinary practice (similarity 0.80)
- Doctrinal texts are post-hoc justifications for structural causes of corporal punishment, not causes themselves (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Doctrinal texts are post-hoc justifications for structural causes of corporal punishment, not causes themselves
#complicates(0.60) — , The Rod and the Child, 4203 - Religious justifications for slavery used curses to keep converts enslaved
#corroborates(0.55) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 118 - Religious traditions framed child corporal punishment as love, not violence
#corroborates(0.50) — , The Rod and the Child, 8173