Christian Ritual and the Creation of British Slave Societies, 1650-1780 (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900)
"Beasley tackles an important and mostly neglected subject and carries off his revisionist account with great flair. He joins the cutting edge of Atlantic World scholarship by looking at race in terms of interactions between blacks and whites, not by examining either group in isolation. Scholars of religion in colonial North America and the West Indies will need to reckon with this impressive book."—Erik R. Seeman, author ofPious Persuasions: Laity and Clergy in Eighteenth-Century New England