On Preaching and Preachers, by Herman Bavinck

‘Mr Gordon met his fate in the religious spirit’: A letter, empire, Christianity and the death of George William Gordon

“…The fate of this letter, which served as a significant propaganda text for the anti-Eyre coalition, may provide insights into the potential of epistolary literature to unmask the workings of empire while itself being a product of such empire. Importantly, it calls attention to the religious tensions and ties, which may have surrounded Gordon's death, highlighting, in particular, that there was a strained relationship between missionaries and native evangelists, 1 and the colonial authorities in the colonial polity of Jamaica. Peggy highlights the existence especially of a 'stoush between the civil authority and black preach [ers]' before the Uprising (p. 211).…”