Race and redemption in Puritan New England
By: Richard A. Bailey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780195366594
Description: Here, Bailey turns his gaze northward and to an earlier period to the origins of puritan New England, and contends that as colonial New Englanders offered spiritual redemption to their neighbors they began creating raced identities for their Native American and African neighbours.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : "neither bond nor free" : New Englanders, race, and redemption; title: Laying the foundation for "a citty upon a hil" : faith, works, covenant, and colonialism; title: When image unmakes the man : the consequences of thinking about the colors and capabilities of "others"; title: "I am come into the light" : confessions of faith, sermons, and ventriloquism; title: "We are not to make asses of our servants" : exercising authority over New Englanders of color; title: "The art of coyning Christians" : redeeming self and "others" in Puritan New England; title: Epilogue :  the happy day refuses to come.