“Kairos”: Freedom Come
摘要
Chapter seven outlines the proper understanding of the Sam Sharpe Revolt. It argues that its detailing should not be one that illustrates it as a mere fortuitous, spontaneous, reactionary socio-political uprising, but as a kairotic event that historizes freedom. It reveals that freedom is in the immediate present and concerns how the enslaved understand themselves as progressors of that very freedom. They live it because they are it. The chapter offers a contextual definition for Kairos, identifies some of the factors that lead to the abolition of slavery, explores the relationship between freedom and oppression, and concludes with a discussion on the theological basis of freedom. If what this chapter argues is correct, it underscores an element that constitutes a distinctive feature for a theology of resistance.