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Ordinary lives in the early Caribbean

Block, Kristen.

Ordinary lives in the early Caribbean religion, colonial competition, and the politics of profit / [electronic resource] : Kristen Block. - Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (328 p.) - Early American places . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780820343754 0820343757


Caribbean Area--Biography.
Caribbean Area--History--18th century.
Caribbean Area--History--17th century.
Caribbean Area--Social conditions--18th century.
Caribbean Area--Social conditions--17th century.


Electronic books.

F2161 / .B58 2012

972.903