Slaveowners saw Christianized slaves as more rebellious and poorer workers

Evidence

The scanty accounts of Christianization suggest that conversion and consolidation of belief remained little more than a formality throughout the entire epoch of slavery. Indeed … the slaveowners regarded Christianized slaves as more rebellious and as poorer workers than those not indoctrinated, and would pay less for them… . Black popular religion could hardly endorse slavery and all it implied, nor could the slaves remain content with equality in God’s eyes but not in their own. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 828

Categorization

• XREF: This parallels the complacency-of-immorality material on how counter-ideologies can arise within dominant belief systems. — connects to: Religious conversion made slaveholders more cruel, not less — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 246