1. Beilby Porteus, A Sermon preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (London: T. Harrison and S. Brooke, 1783). See also: Beilby Porteus, ‘An Essay towards a Plan for the more effectual Civilisation and Conversion of the Negroe Slaves on the Trust Estate in Barbados’ (1784), in The Works of the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus, D.D., 4th edn, 6 vols (London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811), VI, pp. 159–208; Beilby Porteus, A Letter to the Governors, Legislatures, and Proprietors ofPlantations, in the British West India Islands (London: Luke Hansard and Sons, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, T. Payne, and F., C., and J. Rivington, 1808).
2. George Berkeley, A proposal for the better supplying of churches in our foreign plantations, and for converting the savage Americans to Christianity (London: H. Woodfall, 1724), p. 9. Berkeley refers to plantation workers, who were, of course, slaves.
3. Ibid., p. 17.
4. Joseph Butler, Sermon [on Matthew 24. 14] preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 16 February 1738–39, in The Works of Joseph Butler, ed. W. E. Gladstone, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1897), vol. 2, pp. 242–3.
5. Christopher Codrington, ‘Last Will and Testament’, reprod. in Vincent T. Harlow, Christopher Codrington 1668–1750 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928), pp. 217–20 (p. 218).