[PDF] Race And Redemption In Puritan New England eBook

Author : Richard A. Bailey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 34,68 MB
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 019536659X

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As colonists made their way to New England in the early seventeenth century, they hoped their efforts would stand as a "citty upon a hill." Living the godly life preached by John Winthrop would have proved difficult even had these puritans inhabited the colonies alone, but this was not the case: this new landscape included colonists from Europe, indigenous Americans, and enslaved Africans. In Race and Redemption in Puritan New England, Richard A. Bailey investigates the ways that colonial New Englanders used, constructed, and re-constructed their puritanism to make sense of their new realities. As they did so, they created more than a tenuous existence together. They also constructed race out of the spiritual freedom of puritanism.

Author : Richard A. Bailey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,87 MB
Release : 2011-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199987181

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As colonists made their way to New England in the early seventeenth century, they hoped their efforts would stand as a "citty upon a hill." Living the godly life preached by John Winthrop would have proved difficult even had these puritans inhabited the colonies alone, but this was not the case: this new landscape included colonists from Europe, indigenous Americans, and enslaved Africans. In Race and Redemption in Puritan New England, Richard A. Bailey investigates the ways that colonial New Englanders used, constructed, and re-constructed their puritanism to make sense of their new realities. As they did so, they created more than a tenuous existence together. They also constructed race out of the spiritual freedom of puritanism.

Author : Heather Miyano Kopelson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 147986028X

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In the seventeenth-century English Atlantic, religious beliefs and practices played a central role in creating racial identity. English Protestantism provided a vocabulary and structure to describe and maintain boundaries between insider and outsider. In this path-breaking study, Heather Miyano Kopelson peels back the layers of conflicting definitions of bodies and competing practices of faith in the puritan Atlantic, demonstrating how the categories of “white,” “black,” and “Indian” developed alongside religious boundaries between “Christian” and “heathen” and between “Catholic” and “Protestant.” Faithful Bodies focuses on three communities of Protestant dissent in the Atlantic World: Bermuda, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. In this “puritan Atlantic,” religion determined insider and outsider status: at times Africans and Natives could belong as long as they embraced the Protestant faith, while Irish Catholics and English Quakers remained suspect. Colonists’ interactions with indigenous peoples of the Americas and with West Central Africans shaped their understandings of human difference and its acceptable boundaries. Prayer, religious instruction, sexual behavior, and other public and private acts became markers of whether or not blacks and Indians were sinning Christians or godless heathens. As slavery became law, transgressing people of color counted less and less as sinners in English puritans’ eyes, even as some of them made Christianity an integral part of their communities. As Kopelson shows, this transformation proceeded unevenly but inexorably during the long seventeenth century.

Author : Keith W. F. Stavely
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN :

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Using "Paradise Lost" as a touchstone first to the English Revolution and second to the way that revolution was transferred to America, Stavely convincingly argues that the "structure of feeling" embodied in the poem persists through three centuries ofAmerican culture. His discussion of Puritan radicalism in New England and, more importantly, his detailed case studies of Marlborough and Westborough, Massachusetts, which he investigates and understands by constant reference to Milton's great poem, display his strong gifts as both literary critic and intellectual historian. Puritan Legacies is a challenging example of the "New Historicism" we have so long needed.

Author : Donna B Gawell
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 19,45 MB
Release : 2021-04-17
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The ABCs of Crime and Punishment in Puritan New England explains the legal system impacted the Puritan society of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The men who wrote and enforced these laws believed that every aspect of their lives should be aligned with the teachings of the Holy Bible. Adultery, common punishments, witchcraft, spectral evidence, etc. are explained in historical context. We might think of Puritan laws and practices as harsh, but they were perhaps more "civilized" compared to the general population back in the Motherland. Puritans chose to resolve their disagreements in a court of law rather than with raucous and revengeful behavior in the streets. This book describes the more negative aspects of life in early colonial New England. The first colonizers were very moral and upright citizens holding the Godly goal of establishing "A City on a Hill." Even from the beginning, there were those who did not hold these beliefs and standards and never had. The majority of those who migrated were indentured servants and suffered under the harsh realities of life in the New World. Despite their different views, they were forced to live under the demanding expectations and laws of the Puritan church.

Author : Elizabeth Reis
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 19,49 MB
Release : 1999-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1501713337

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In her analysis of the cultural construction of gender in early America, Elizabeth Reis explores the intersection of Puritan theology, Puritan evaluations of womanhood, and the Salem witchcraft episodes. She finds in those intersections the basis for understanding why women were accused of witchcraft more often than men, why they confessed more often, and why they frequently accused other women of being witches. In negotiating their beliefs about the devil's powers, both women and men embedded womanhood in the discourse of depravity.Puritan ministers insisted that women and men were equal in the sight of God, with both sexes equally capable of cleaving to Christ or to the devil. Nevertheless, Reis explains, womanhood and evil were inextricably linked in the minds and hearts of seventeenth-century New England Puritans. Women and men feared hell equally but Puritan culture encouraged women to believe it was their vile natures that would take them there rather than the particular sins they might have committed.Following the Salem witchcraft trials, Reis argues, Puritans' understanding of sin and the devil changed. Ministers and laity conceived of a Satan who tempted sinners and presided physically over hell, rather than one who possessed souls in the living world. Women and men became increasingly confident of their redemption, although women more than men continued to imagine themselves as essentially corrupt, even after the Great Awakening.