Ordinary lives in the early Caribbean [[electronic resource] ] : religion, colonial competition, and the politics of profit / / Kristen Block

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790365603321
• Autore: Block Kristen
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Athens, : University of Georgia Press, 2012
• ISBN: 1-280-59604-X; 9786613625878; 0-8203-4375-7
• Descrizione fisica: xiii, 309 p. : ill., maps
• Collana: Early American places
• Disciplina: 972.903
• Soggetti: Religion and social problems - Caribbean Area - History; Slavery and the church - Caribbean Area - History; Caribbean Area Biography; Caribbean Area Economic conditions; Caribbean Area History 17th century; Caribbean Area History 18th century; Caribbean Area Race relations History; Caribbean Area Social conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.