TY - BOOK AU - Block,Kristen ED - Project Muse. TI - Ordinary lives in the early Caribbean: religion, colonial competition, and the politics of profit T2 - Early American places SN - 9780820343754 AV - F2161 .B58 2012 U1 - 972.903 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Athens PB - University of Georgia Press KW - Caribbean Area KW - Biography KW - History KW - 18th century KW - 17th century KW - Social conditions KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780820343754/ ER -