- Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 309 p.) : ill., maps.
- Series Statement
- Early American places
- Uniform Title
- Ordinary lives in the early Caribbean (Online)
- Early American places.
- Alternative Title
- Ordinary lives in the early Caribbean (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Isabel. -- "If her soul was condemned, it would be the authorities' fault" -- Contesting the boundaries of antichristian cruelty in Cartagena de Indias -- Imperial intercession and master-slave relations in Spanish Caribbean hinterlands -- Law, religion, social contract, and slavery's daily negotiations -- Nicolas. -- "To live and die as a Catholic Christian" -- Northern European Protestants in the Spanish Caribbean -- Empire, bureaucracy, and escaping the Spanish inquisition -- Conversion, coercion, and tolerance in Old and New Worlds -- Henry. -- "Such as will truck for trade with darksome things" -- Cromwellian political economy and the pursuit of New World promise -- Plunder, masculinity and the politics of economic exclusion -- Anxieties of interracial alliances, black resistance, and the specter of slavery -- Yaff & Nell. -- "He hath made all nations of one blood" -- Quakers, slavery, and the challenges of radical universalism -- Evangelization and insubordination : authority and stability in Quaker plantations -- The Protestant ethic and the Society of Friends : ambiguous Caribbean legacy -- Conclusion : cynicism and redemption. -- Religion, empire and the Atlantic moral economy at the turn of the 18th century.
- LCCN
- 2012001900
- OCLC
- ssj0000681652
- Author
Block, Kristen.
- Title
Ordinary lives in the early Caribbean [electronic resource] : religion, colonial competition, and the politics of profit / Kristen Block.
- Imprint
Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2012.
- Series
Early American places
Early American places.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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