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The Baptism of Early Virginia - How Christianity Created Race (Hardcover): Rebecca Anne Goetz

The Baptism of Early Virginia - How Christianity Created Race (Hardcover)

Rebecca Anne Goetz

Series: Early America: History, Context, Culture

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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.

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Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Early America: History, Context, Culture
Release date: October 2012
First published: 2012
Authors: Rebecca Anne Goetz
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-0700-5
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Equal opportunities
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion
Books > Christianity
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LSN: 1-4214-0700-0
Barcode: 9781421407005

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