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Faith and Boundaries - Colonists, Christianity, and Community among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600-1871 (Paperback, Revised)
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Faith and Boundaries - Colonists, Christianity, and Community among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600-1871 (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Studies in North American Indian History
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Total price: R780
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It was indeed possible for Indians and Europeans to live peacefully
in early America and for Indians to survive as distinct
communities. Faith and Boundaries uses the story of Martha's
Vineyard Wampanoags to examine how. On an island marked by
centralized English authority, missionary commitment, and an Indian
majority, the Wampanoags' adaptation to English culture, especially
Christianity, checked violence while safeguarding their land,
community, and ironically, even customs. Yet the colonists'
exploitation of Indian land and labor exposed the limits of
Christian fellowship and thus hardened racial division. The
Wampanoags learned about race through this rising bar of
civilization - every time they met demands to reform, colonists
moved the bar higher until it rested on biological difference.
Under the right circumstances, like those on Martha's Vineyard,
religion could bridge wide difference between the peoples of early
America, but its transcendent power was limited by the divisiveness
of race.
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