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.

Early American places

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and social problems--Caribbean Area--History.

Religion and social problems.

Slavery and the church--Caribbean Area--History.

Slavery and the church.

Caribbean Area--Biography.

Caribbean Area.

Caribbean Area--Economic conditions.

Caribbean Area--History--17th century.

Caribbean Area--History--18th century.

Caribbean Area--Race relations--History.

Caribbean Area--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xiii, 309 p. : ill., maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Block examines the entangled histories of Spain and England in the Caribbean during the seventeenth century, focusing on colonialism's two main goals: the search for profit and the call to Christian dominance. Using the stories of ordinary people, she shows how engaging with the powerful rhetoric and rituals of Christianity was key to survival.

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613625878

9781280596049

128059604X

9780820343754

0820343757

OCLC:

795353046