In The Baptism of Early Virginia , Rebecca Anne Goetz examines the construction of Race through the religious beliefs and practices of English Virginians.
In Virginia in particular, English settlers initially believed that native people would qui.
She finds the seventeenth century a critical time in the development and articulation of racial ideologies--ultimately in the idea of hereditary heathenism, the notion that Africans and Indians were incapable of genuine Christian conversion.
In The Baptism of Early Virginia , Rebecca Anne Goetz examines the construction of Race through the religious beliefs and practices of English Virginians