Introduction: A new people of God
"Little tabernacles in the wilderness": Baptists in colonial Pennsylvania
"Sons and daughters in zion": Baptists in colonial Virginia
"A heaven-born stroke": evangelical conversion
"Putting on Christianity": ritual practice
"Holy walking and conversation": church discipline
Sisters in Christ: gender and spirituality
Free people in the Lord: race and religion
The manly Christian: evangelical white manhood
Conclusion: Baptists in the early republic
Appendix: Baptist ministers in the Delaware Valley and Chesapeake.