TY - BOOK AU - Block,Kristen TI - Ordinary lives in the early Caribbean: religion, colonial competition, and the politics of profit T2 - Early American places SN - 9780820343754 (electronic bk.) AV - F2161 U1 - 972.903 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Athens PB - University of Georgia Press KW - Slavery and the church KW - Caribbean Area KW - History KW - Religion and social problems KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical KW - bisacsh KW - HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General KW - 17th century KW - 18th century KW - Social conditions KW - Economic conditions KW - Biography KW - Race relations KW - Electronic books N1 - Title from PDF title page (viewed on June 13, 2012); Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=457286 ER -