Robert Robinson and Slavery

"As William Knibb headed to England along along with the report signed by 13 missionaries, what would they tell the Baptist Missionary Society? In part they would defend themselves by proclaiming their innocence of the charges of fomenting insurrection."Ron MillerFor more information, visit CBTSeminary.org

"William Knibb was popular with the slaves because they knew of his work for them."—Ron MillerFor more information, visit CBTSeminary.org

"William Knibb was born on September 7, 1803, in Kettering, England, along with a twin sister. Kettering was, of course, the place of Andrew Fuller’s pastorate and the home of the Baptist Missionary Society."Ron MillerFor more information, visit CBTSeminary.org

"At the time of Liele’s arrival in the early 1780s, there were about 250,000 enslaved people, most of them taken from the gold coast region of Africa, what is today called Ghana. Liele was one of only about 4000 free people of color." -Ron MillerFor more information, visit CBTSeminary.org

"There has been some debate about whether George Liele was America’s first Baptist missionary, since his going to Jamaica predated by 30 years Adoniram Judson’s voyage to the East in 1812." Ron MillerFor more information, visit CBTSeminary.org

"The greatest historical impact that the English Baptists had related to English slavery was surely their involvement in mission activity in Jamaica, the inevitable ethical clashes that followed, and the impact of all this on British law and the slaves’ emancipation."Ron MillerFor more information, visit CBTSeminary.org

Four years before Abraham Booth preached his famous sermon against English slavery, another pastor, usually classified as a Particular Baptist, Robert Robinson, preached his own widely admired sermon on the topic. In his home church in Cambridge, on Sunday, February 10, 1788, Robinson delivered a message entitled “Slavery Inconsistent with the Spirit of Christianity.”For more information, visit CBTSeminary.org

"The title of Booth’s sermon made his position very clear: the Bible condemned the enslavement of and commerce in human beings in the practices then collectively known as the African slave trade. He sought to prove this both from the Old and New Testaments and used Exodus 21:16 as his foundational text."Ron MillerFor more information, visit CBTSeminary.org

"One remarkable fact that strikes readers of early Baptist history is that occurrences of the term 'baptist' are scarce. There is no evidence that the first generation of the people we call 'English Particular Baptists' used it to label themselves." -Ron MillerFor more information, visit CBTSeminary.org

"Joint prayer was prominent in the meetings. Requests for Christ’s blessing on their preaching, church planting, and holiness of life were common. Days were appointed in the churches for prayer when special needs arose." -Ron MillerFor more information, visit CBTSeminary.org