Faithful Bodies: Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I Defining 23 1 “One Indian and a Negroe, the first thes Ilands ever had” 25 2 “Joyne interchangeably in a laborious bodily service” 51 3 “Ye are of one Body and members one of another” 74 Part II Performing 101 4 “Extravasat Blood” 107 5 “Makinge a tumult in the congregation” 126 6 “Those bloody people who did use most horrible crueltie” 150 7 “To bee among the praying indians” 171 8 “In consideration for his raising her in the Christian faith” 192 viii / contents Part III Disciplining 215 9 “Abominable mixture and spurious issue” 219 10 “Sensured to be whipped uppon a Lecture daie” 231 11 “If any white woman shall have a child by any Negroe or other slave” 249 Epilogue 271 Notes 275 Bibliography 315 Index 359 About the Author 373 ...