A Sketch of the Religious History of the Negroes in the South (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from A Sketch of the Religious History of the Neg...)
Excerpt from A Sketch of the Religious History of the Negroes in the South
The term negro denotes an ideal type distinguished by cer tain physical characters, such as are seen in the people of the coast of Guinea, viz., - black skin, woolly hair, flat nose, thick everted lips, and a prognathous form of skull. Negroes occupy about one half of Africa, excluding the northern and southern extremities. Out of Africa they are found throughout America and the West Indies.
James Anthony Froude, in depicting the character of the slave population of the West Indies says: Evidently they belonged to a race far inferior to the Zulus and Caffres whom I had known in South Africa. They would have been slaves in their own country, if they had not been brought to ours; and at the worst had lost nothing by the change. Evidence of the extreme degradation of the Africans who were brought to our shores is furnished by the fact that the traders se cured their cargo through the agency of the Africans them selves. It was their own flesh and blood who tore the slaves away from their miserable homes, burning their villages, chasing them down, mutilating and destroying many to gratify their selfish greed by selling into bondage those whom they managed to take alive.
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A Sketch of the Religious History of the Negroes in the South (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from A Sketch of the Religious History of the Neg...)
Excerpt from A Sketch of the Religious History of the Negroes in the South
The term negro denotes an ideal type distinguished by cer tain physical characters, such as are seen in the people of the coast of Guinea, viz., - black skin, woolly hair, flat nose, thick everted lips, and a prognathous form of skull. Negroes occupy about one half of Africa, excluding the northern and southern extremities. Out of Africa they are found throughout America and the West Indies.
James Anthony Froude, in depicting the character of the slave population of the West Indies says: Evidently they belonged to a race far inferior to the Zulus and Caffres whom I had known in South Africa. They would have been slaves in their own country, if they had not been brought to ours; and at the worst had lost nothing by the change. Evidence of the extreme degradation of the Africans who were brought to our shores is furnished by the fact that the traders se cured their cargo through the agency of the Africans them selves. It was their own flesh and blood who tore the slaves away from their miserable homes, burning their villages, chasing them down, mutilating and destroying many to gratify their selfish greed by selling into bondage those whom they managed to take alive.
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Richard Clark Reed was an American Presbyterian clergyman, professor of theology, and author.
Background
Richard Clark Reed was born on January 24, 1851 near Soddy, Hamilton County, Tennessee, the son of James Landrum Reed, also a Presbyterian minister and a contributor to religious papers. His mother, Elizabeth Jane, was the daughter of Maj. Robert Clark McRee, a native of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, grandson of Rev. Alexander Craighead, and a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church. Upon her death Richard, at the age of two years, was taken to live in the home of Major McRee, whose wife had previously died. Thus his grandfather became a large factor in the molding of the boy's life.
Education
During his early days he worked on his grandfather's farm and attended a local school. In 1873 he graduated from King College, Bristol, Tennessee, with distinction, and in 1876, from Union Theological Seminary in Virginia.
Career
He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Knoxville, and in September 1876 he was ordained by the Presbytery of Memphis.
For twenty years after his ordination he was a pastor, serving the following Presbyterian churches: Charlotte Court House, Virginia (1877 - 85); Franklin, Tennessee (1885 - 89); Second Church, Charlotte, North Carolina (1889 - 92); and Woodland Street Church, Nashville, Tennessee (1892 - 98). In 1898 he became professor of church history and polity in Columbia Theological Seminary, Columbia, South Carolina, and held that position until his death.
He took a leading part in the removal of the institution to Atlanta, but died before the transfer was actually made. He was a prolific writer. A frequent contributor to religious papers, in his early ministry, under a pen-name, he replied to some of his father's articles, taking the opposite views. For two years (1902 - 04) he was associate editor of the Presbyterian Quarterly, and for twenty years (1905 - 25), associate editor of the Presbyterian Standard, Charlotte, North Carolina, contributing regularly to its editorial pages. He was also the author of a number of useful books.
His History of the Presbyterian Churches of the World (1905), a work of more than four hundred pages, is still one of the best authorities on that subject. Later in life he published What is the Kingdom of God? (1922), an able discussion of this question from the post-millennial point of view. He was also the author of several smaller works: The Gospel as Taught by Calvin (1896), "Presbyterian Church in the United States, " in The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, and A Sketch of the Religious History of the Negroes in the South (1914). His literary style was lucid and forceful.
He was appointed on many important denominational and inter-denominational committees. His presbytery frequently elected him as a commissioner to the General Assembly, where he was always a leader and strong debater.
In 1922 he was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States.
He died while asleep and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Columbia, South Carolina.
Achievements
For many years he was a leading spirit in the Pan-Presbyterian Alliance, and thus became known to the Presbyterian churches throughout the world. Few men have rendered a larger service or had a larger influence in the Presbyterian Church.
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Personality
He had a keen sense of humor and the articles which he contributed to the papers were often lighted up by unexpected flashes of humor.
He had the gift of making dry subjects live. In his thinking, speaking, and writing he was strongly conservative.
Connections
On October 17, 1876 of the same year he was married to Mary Cantey Venable of Farmville, Virginia; two daughters and three sons were born of this marriage.
