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Faithful bodies

Kopelson, Heather Miyano.

Faithful bodies performing religion and race in the Puritan Atlantic / [electronic resource] : Heather Miyano Kopelson. - New York : New York University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - Early American places . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

"Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Defining -- "One Indian and a Negroe, the first thes Islands ever had" -- "Joyne interchangeably in a laborious bodily service" -- "Ye are of one Body and members one of another" -- Part II. Performing -- "Extravasat Blood" -- "Makinge a tumult in the congregation" -- "Those bloody people who did use most horrible crueltie" -- "To bee among the praying Indians" -- "In consideration for his raising her in the Christian faith" -- Part III. Disciplining -- "Abominable mixture and spurious issue" -- "Sensured to be whipped uppon a Lecture daie" -- "If any white woman shall have a child by any Negroe or other slave" -- Epilogue.

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RELIGION / Christian Life / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.
HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775).


Electronic books.