In The Baptism of Early Virginia; Rebecca Anne Goetz examines the construction of race through the religious beliefs and practices of English Virginians. She finds the seventeenth century a critical time in the development and articulation of racial ideologies―ultimately in the idea of "hereditary heathenism;" the notion that Africans and Indians were incapable of genuine Christian conversion. In Virginia in particular; English settlers initially believed that native people would quickly become Christian and would form a vibrant partnership with English people. After vicious Anglo-Indian violence dashed those hopes; English Virginians used Christian rituals like marriage and baptism to exclude first Indians and then Africans from the privileges enjoyed by English Christians―including freedom.Resistance to hereditary heathenism was not uncommon; however. Enslaved people and many Anglican ministers fought against planters’ racial ideologies; setting the stage for Christian abolitionism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Using court records; letters; and pamphlets; Goetz suggests new ways of approaching and understanding the deeply entwined relationship between Christianity and race in early America.
#15102958 in Books Robert E Lee 2004-05-23Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.02 x 1.10 x 5.98l; 1.58 #File Name: 1417916591492 pagesRecollections and Letters of General Robert E Lee
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Excellent bookBy Jim FialkoWish all these protesters had a chance to read this book gives real incite into the man and his real motives for leading the confederate army his attitude towards slavery and to his love of country and man0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Customernone0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Lee"s own words yet be prepared for sentences running on with no line spacingBy T. DiffleyI wanted to read from Robert E Lee's own words; complimented by his son's introductions to each letter - that I accomplished though the running format of this edition makes it hard to read follow. Unsure if this is how the original was published or just how "First Rate Publishers" chose to reproduce this work. Also unsure if it's complete.
