How Long to Read Faith and Fortune

How Long Does it Take to Read Faith and Fortune?

It takes the average reader 11 hours and 32 minutes to read Faith and Fortune by Kristen Block

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

"Faith and Fortune" examines the intersection between religious allegiance and economic ambition on the volatile frontiers of the seventeenth-century Caribbean. Encompassing both Spanish and English colonies, it employs four case studies to explore how ordinary individuals created and manipulated the meaning of their religious affiliations. The first chapter examines cases of Christianized slaves in Cartagena de Indias who denounced their masters' harsh mistreatment as un-Christian, using their membership in the community of believers as leverage to demand better conditions. The second chapter is a study of the motley crew of Protestant Northern Europeans who, as sojourners in the Spanish Caribbean, converted to Catholicism as an assimilation strategy. The ideas and practice of English Puritanism animate the third chapter's case study of the political economy of Oliver Cromwell's Western Design -- a puritan crusade against the Spanish Catholic empire in the New World -- using an analysis of race, class, and gender to examine its failures. The final chapter takes place in Barbados, birthplace of the English colonial "sugar revolution," where Quaker missionaries intent on Christianizing the local African slave population churned up fears of slave rebellion and challenged local Friends' interpretation of their own faith and convictions. "Faith and Fortune" personalizes the history of Caribbean inequalities from the perspective of slaves, sailors, servants, and sectarians who made their lives and fortunes in the profit-saturated landscape of the Caribbean. It illuminates how for them, articulating a Christian identity was a political act, an important power negotiation, and a way to articulate injustice. -- Author's abstract.

How long is Faith and Fortune?

Faith and Fortune by Kristen Block is 676 pages long, and a total of 173,056 words.

This makes it 228% the length of the average book. It also has 211% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Faith and Fortune Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 15 hours and 45 minutes to read Faith and Fortune aloud.

What Reading Level is Faith and Fortune?

Faith and Fortune is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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