Although puritans in 17th-century New England lived alongside both
Native Americans and Africans, the white New Englanders imagined
their neighbors as something culturally and intellectually distinct
from themselves. Legally and practically, they saw people of color
as simultaneously human and less than human, things to be owned.
Yet all of these people remained New Englanders, regardless of the
color of their skin, and this posed a problem for puritans. In
order to fulfill John Winthrop's dream of a "city on a hill," New
England's churches needed to contain all New Englanders. To deal
with this problem, white New Englanders generally turned to
familiar theological constructs to redeem not only themselves and
their actions (including their participation in race-based slavery)
but also to redeem the colonies' Africans and Native Americans.
Richard A. Bailey draws on diaries, letters, sermons, court
documents, newspapers, church records, and theological writings to
tell the story of the religious and racial tensions in puritan New
England.
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