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Deadly virtue : Fort Caroline and the early Protestant roots of American WhitenessEntry/Object ID
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Fort Caroline National Memorial, Whiteness, French Calvinist, Indigenous PeopleDescription
272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Deadly virtue : Fort Caroline and the early Protestant roots of American whiteness by Heather Martel
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Friendship -- Health -- Power -- Gender -- Sexuality -- Idolatry -- Grace -- Conclusion: Race -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Deadly Virtue argues that the history of the French Calvinist attempt to colonize Florida in the 1560s is key to understanding the roots of American whiteness in sixteenth-century colonialism, science, and Protestantism. The book places the history of Fort Caroline, Florida, into the context of Protestant colonialism and understandings of the body, emotion, and identity held in common by travelers throughout the early Atlantic world. Protestants envisioned finding a rich and powerful Indigenous king, converting him to Christianity, and then establishing a Protestant-Indigenous alliance to build an empire under Indigenous leadership that would compete with European monarchies. However, when the colony was wiped out by the Spanish, these Protestants took this as a condemnation from their god for this plan of collaborating with Indigenous people and developed separatist strategies for future Protestant colonial projects. By introducing the reader to the humoral model of the body, this book shows how race, gender, sexuality, and Christian morality came to intersect in modern understandings of whiteness.Collection
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White people -- Florida -- Relations with Indians., French -- Florida -- History -- 16th century., Calvinists -- Florida History -- 16th century., Fort Caroline (Fla.) -- History., Fort Caroline National Memorial (Jacksonville, Fla.) -- History.Publication Details
Author
Martel, HeatherPublisher
University Press of FloridaPlace Published
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Gainesville, FLCall No.
BR 520 .M37 2019LCCN
2019004288