The baptism of early Virginia : how Christianity created race / Rebecca Anne Goetz.

Goetz, Rebecca Anne.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2012.
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Part of the series Early America : history, context, culture;Early America.
Notes:

  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Introduction: Christians and heathens in Virginia — English Christians among the Blackest nations — The rise and the fall of the Anglo-Indian Christian commonwealth — Faith in the blood — Baptism and the birth of race — Becoming Christian, Becoming white — The children of Israel — Epilogue: Christian abolitionism and proslavery Christianity.

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