The baptism of early Virginia : how Christianity created race /

Goetz, Rebecca Anne.

The baptism of early Virginia : how Christianity created race / Rebecca Anne Goetz. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (256 pages). - Early America : history, context, culture .

Includes bibliographies 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.



9781421408743


Racism--Virginia.
Racism.
Racism--Virginia.
Racism.
Virginia--Church history.
Virginia--Race relations.


Electronic Books.

BT734 / .B378 2012