St Peter Claver, Jesuit priest, and “slave of the slaves”, spent 40 years among the human cargo as it arrived in Cartegna, Colombia during the seventeeth century, greeting slaves with biscuits, brandy, tobacco and lemons. He tended to the lashed and dying in the holds and carried the sick ashore in his arms. And he absolved penniless negro women ahead of Spanish ladies.
The first part of this book outlines St Peter Claver's methods of conversion, the second discusses questions arising from his methods, the Catholic attitude to slavery and the nature of 'practical Christianity'.
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