The manner how the Christians become Buforman

Identifier: Wisdom 4
Title: The manner how the Christians become Buforman
Description: Hakluyt in this paragraph is detailing how easy it is for an English man living in Turkey to adopt native religion and custom to the detriment of his own country's. The passage is inherently a warning against such heathen behavior and to not "go native." This story would go on to become a popular trope and add to the predominant outlook on English notions of cultural and religious superiority. Similarly, it served to cement the idea that religion determined whether you were English and consequently one's freedom. At the same time as Hakluyt published his book, James Thomson's "Rule, Brittania!" was incredibly popular in England. This song pioneered the idea that no Englishmen could ever be held in chattel slavery. As such the English had to turn to non-Christian and non-white people for slavery.
Creator: Richard Hakluyt
Date Created: 1600
Publisher: London: George Bishop, Ralph Newberie, and Robert Barker
Bibliographic Citation: Hakluyt, Richard, George Bishop, Ralph Newbery, and Robert Barker. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation : Made by Sea or Ouerland, to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth, at Any Time Within the Compasse of These 1600 Yeres London: George Bishop, Ralph Newberie, and Robert Barker, 1600.