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religion, colonial competition, and the politics of profit
xiii, 309 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Isabel. -- "If her soul was condemned, it would be the authorities' fault" -- Contesting the boundaries of anti-Christian 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 -- The politics of economic exclusion: plunder, masculinity, and "piety" -- Anxieties of interracial alliances, black resistance, and the specter of slavery -- Nell, Yaff and Lewis. -- "He hath made all nations of one blood" -- Quakers, slavery, and the challenges of universalism -- Evangelization and insubordination : authority and stability in Quaker plantations -- Inclusion, the Protestant ethic, and the silences of Atlantic capitalism -- Conclusion : cynicism and redemption. -- Religion, empire and the Atlantic economy at the turn of the eighteenth century.
Includes bibliographical references and index.