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Christian Ritual and the Creation of British Slave Societies, 1650-1780 (Hardcover)
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Christian Ritual and the Creation of British Slave Societies, 1650-1780 (Hardcover)
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This title discusses about religion and race in the British
Atlantic. This study offers a new and challenging look at Christian
institutions and practices in Britain's Caribbean and southern
American colonies. Focusing on the plantation societies of
Barbados, Jamaica, and South Carolina, Nicholas M. Beasley finds
that the tradition of liturgical worship in these places was more
vibrant and more deeply rooted in European Christianity than
previously thought. In addition, Beasley argues, white colonists'
attachment to religious continuity was thoroughly racialized.
Church customs, sacraments, and ceremonies were a means of
regulating slavery and asserting whiteness. Drawing on a mix of
historical and anthropological methods, Beasley covers such topics
as church architecture, pew seating customs, marriage, baptism,
communion, and funerals. Colonists created an environment in sacred
time and space that framed their rituals for maximum social impact,
and they asserted privilege and power by privatizing some rituals
and by meting out access to rituals to people of color. Throughout,
Beasley is sensitive to how this culture of worship changed as each
colony reacted to its own political, environmental, and demographic
circumstances across time. Local factors influencing who partook in
Christian rituals and how, when, and where these rituals took place
could include the structure of the Anglican Church, which tended to
be less hierarchical and centralized than at home in England; the
level of tensions between Anglicans and Protestants; the
persistence of African religious beliefs; and, colonists' attitudes
toward free persons of color and elite slaves. This book enriches
an existing historiography that neglects the cultural power of
liturgical Christianity in the early South and the British
Caribbean and offers a new account of the translation of early
modern English Christianity to early America.
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