Faithful Bodies : : Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic /

Faithful Bodies : : Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic / / Heather Miyano Kopelson.

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Inthe seventeenth-century English Atlantic, religious beliefs and practicesplayed a central role in creating racial identity. English Protestantismprovided a vocabulary and structure to describe and maintain boundaries betweeninsider and outsider. In this path-breaking study, Heather MiyanoKopelson...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Kopelson, Heather Miyano,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Early American Places ; 13
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Defining
  • 1. “One Indian and a negroe, the first thes ilands ever had”
  • 2. “Joyne interchangeably in a laborious bodily service”
  • 3. “Ye are of one body and members one of another”
  • Part II. Performing
  • 4. “Extravasat blood”
  • 5. “Makinge a tumult in the congregation”
  • 6. “Those bloody people who did use most horrible crueltie”
  • 7. “To bee among the praying Indians”
  • 8. “In consideration for his raising her in the christian faith”
  • Part III. Disciplining
  • 9. “Abominable mixture and spurious issue”
  • 10. “Sensured to be whipped uppon a lecture daie”
  • 11. “If any white woman shall have a child by any negroe or other slave”
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the author

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