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Ordinary lives in the early Caribbean : religion, colonial competition, and the politics of profit /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Block, Kristen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2012.
Series:Early American places.
Subjects:
Caribbean Area > History > 17th century.
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.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.