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.