Ordinary lives in the early Caribbean religion, colonial competition, and the politics of profit - Block, Kristen (Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2012)
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.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on June 13, 2012).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: 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; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical; HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General; Electronic books