Marlon Millner

Awakening to Justice

History & Biography

“The concept and praxis of abolition is all the rage in Black studies. Here a multiracial group of Christian scholars suggests this term of Black critical thought enacts a faithful form of Christianity among these mid-nineteenth-century, interracial disciples, aptly named revivalist abolitionists. Offering no easy or straightforward recovery of this moment of interruption, these scholars carefully articulate the promise of a critical history of antislavery social life as Christian practice—in anticipation of a world of racialization undone.”