{"id":41482,"date":"2015-06-17T22:54:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T22:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41482"},"modified":"2015-06-17T22:54:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T22:54:41","slug":"the-baptism-of-early-virginia-how-christianity-created-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41482","title":{"rendered":"The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu\/content\/baptism-early-virginia\" target=\"_blank\">The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.jhu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Johns Hopkins Univesity Press<\/a><br \/>\nAugust 2012<br \/>\n240 pages<br \/>\n1 halftone, 1 line drawing<br \/>\nHardback ISBN: 9781421407005<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/history.fas.nyu.edu\/object\/rebeccagoetz.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Anne Goetz<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>New York University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu\/content\/baptism-early-virginia\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51KonA2I7eL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In <em>The Baptism of Early Virginia<\/em>, 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\u2014ultimately in the idea of &#8220;hereditary <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/heathenism\" target=\"_blank\">heathenism<\/a>,&#8221; the notion that Africans and Indians were incapable of genuine Christian conversion. In <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colony_of_Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia<\/a> 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\u2014including freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Resistance to hereditary heathenism was not uncommon, however. Enslaved people and many Anglican ministers fought against planters\u2019 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race Johns Hopkins Univesity Press August 2012 240 pages 1 halftone, 1 line drawing Hardback ISBN: 9781421407005 Rebecca Anne Goetz, Associate Professor of History New York University In The Baptism of Early Virginia, Rebecca Anne Goetz examines the construction of race through the religious beliefs and practices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,8,17,3015,820,6940,20,693],"tags":[20272,20273],"class_list":["post-41482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-native-americans","category-religion","category-slavery","category-usa","category-virginia","tag-johns-hopkins-univesity-press","tag-rebecca-anne-goetz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}