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The baptism of early Virginia : how Christianity created race / Rebecca Anne Goetz.
Author
Goetz, Rebecca Anne
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2012.
Description
xiii, 223 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
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BT734.2 .G64 2012
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Racism
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Virginia
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Racism
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Religious aspects
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Christianity
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Virginia
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Race relations
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Virginia
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Church history
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Virginia
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History
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Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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Series
Early America
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Early America : history, context, culture
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Summary note
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 "hereditary heathenism," the notion that Africans and Indians were incapable of genuine Christian conversion. In Virginia in particular, English settlers initially believed that native people would quickly become Christian and would form a vibrant partnership with English people. After vicious Anglo-Indian violence dashed those hopes, English Virginians used Christian rituals like marriage and baptism to exclude first Indians and then Africans from the privileges enjoyed by English Christians - including freedom. Resistance to hereditary heathenism was not uncommon, however. Enslaved people and many Anglican ministers fought against planters' racial ideologies, setting the stage for Christian abolitionism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Using court records, letters, and pamphlets, Goetz suggests new ways of approaching and understanding the deeply entwined relationship between Christianity and race in early America. -- Book jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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ISBN
9781421407005 ((hbk. ; : alk. paper))
1421407000 ((hbk. ; : alk. paper))
9781421419817 ((pbk.))
1421419815 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2012001951
OCLC
775590840
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