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⁶ See Isaac, Transformation of Virginia, 161–77, 260–5, 285–93, and Mathews, Religion in the Old'south, 14–20, 66–84.

⁷ Ibid., 74–80, 136–80, and Raboteau, Slave Religion, 152–80.

⁸ Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll, 185–6, and Raboteau, Slave Religion, 121–2, 131–2, 148—50, 175–6, 209–10.

⁹ Ibid., 58–92, 275–81, and Mathews, Religion in the Old South, 208—13.

¹⁰ Ibid., 185–236, Raboteau, Slave Religion, 213–19, 290–318, and Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll, 232–84.

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