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Ordinary lives in the early Caribbean : religion, colonial competition, and the politics of profit / Kristen Block.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Block, Kristen.
- Series:
- Early American places
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and social problems.
- History.
- Slavery and the church.
- Race relations.
- Economic conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Caribbean Area--History--17th century.
- Caribbean Area.
- Caribbean Area--History--18th century.
- Caribbean Area--Social conditions--History.
- Caribbean Area--Economic conditions--History.
- Caribbean Area--Biography.
- Caribbean Area--Race relations--History.
- Slavery and the church--Caribbean Area--History.
- Religion and social problems--Caribbean Area--History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 309 pages : illustrations, maps ; cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2012.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780820338675
- 0820338672
- 9780820338682
- 0820338680
- OCLC:
- 768168211
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