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    Title
    The Baptism of Early Virginia
    Subtitle
    How Christianity Created Race
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Rebecca Anne Goetz
    Physical properties
    Format: Hardback
    Number of pages: 240
    Width: 152 mm
    Height: 229 mm
    Thickness: 21 mm
    Weight: 476 g
    Audience
    College/higher education
    General/trade
    Professional and scholarly
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9781421407005
    ISBN 10: 1421407000
    Classifications
    BIC subject category: HBTB
    BIC geographical qualifier: 1KBB
    BISAC category code: REL015000
    BISAC category code: SOC001000
    BISAC category code: REL000000
    BISAC category code: HIS036020
    BISAC category code: SOC031000
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: T6.4
    Illustrations note
    1 halftone, 1 line drawing
    Publisher
    JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint name
    JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Publication date
    19 October 2012
    Publication City/Country
    Baltimore, MD/US
    Biographical note
    Rebecca Anne Goetz is an assistant professor of history at Rice University.
    Promotional headline
    Christianity's role in furthering racism in early America.
    Main description
    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.
    Review quote
    Goetz postis her thesis in a history of England and Colonial Virginia, providing necessary context while educating readers in the general narrative of English and Virginia history. Choice