Slavery, Ethnic Identity, and Christianity in Eighteenth-Century Moravian Antigua

Concerns over the maintenance of ethnic affiliation and conflicts with ethnic and subethnic rivals sparked interest in Christian conversion among enslaved Africans and people of African descent on the British West Indian island colony of Antigua in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Some...

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Main Author: Catron, John (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Penn State Univ. Press 2014
In: Journal of Moravian history
Year: 2014, Volume: 14, Issue: 2, Pages: 153-178
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