This study offers a new and challenging look at Christian institutions and practices in Britain’s Caribbean and southern American colonies. Focusing on the pl

The everyday lives of Irish and Africans are obscured by sources constructed by elites. Through her research, Shaw overcomes the constraints such sources impose

Material things mattered immensely to those who engaged in daily struggles over the character and future of slavery and to those who subsequently contested the

Cutting across academic boundaries, this volume brings together scholars from different disciplines who have explored together the richness and complexity of co

"A very satisfying book, persuasive in showing how material culture and household devotion are central to the workings of `lived' Anglicanism in eighteenth-cent