How we Learned that Slavery is Wrong

It seems obvious now, but it hasn’t always. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the old consensus that slavery was a mere fact of life, a tolerable evil, broke down, as Protestant activists opposed slavery ever more forcefully – and as other Protestants defended it ever more idealistically. As this lecture will explore, the result was not only the end of legal slavery but profound changes in Protestant Christianity which resonate to the present.

This is a free public lecture by Alec Ryrie, Visiting Gresham Professor in the History of Religion.

There is no need to book in advance for this lecture. It runs on a first come first served basis.