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The Baptism of Early Virginia : How Christianity Created Race /

In The Baptism of Early Virginia, Rebecca Anne Goetz examines the construction of race through the religious beliefs and practices of English Virginians. She finds the seventeenth century a critical time in the development and articulation of racial ideologies - ultimately in the idea of "hered...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Goetz, Rebecca Anne (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: Christians and Heathens in Virginia
  • English Christians among the Blackest Nations
  • The Rise and the Fall of the Anglo-Indian Christian Commonwealth
  • Faith in the Blood
  • Baptism and the Birth of Race
  • Becoming Christian, Becoming White
  • The Children of Israel
  • Epilogue: Christian Abolitionism and Proslavery Christianity.