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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2021
- Book Title
- Slavery and Sacred Texts: The Bible, the Constitution, and His...
- ISBN
- 9781108478144
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
110847814X
ISBN-13
9781108478144
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3050094034
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Publication Name
Slavery and Sacred Texts : The Bible, the Constitution, and Historical Consciousness in Antebellum America
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
Subject
United States / 19th Century, United States / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History
Series
Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2021-027026
Dewey Edition
23/eng/20231023
Reviews
'Watkins examines an impressively wide range of thinkers, white and Black, famous and forgotten, as they argued over whether Scripture and the Constitution (itself a kind of secular 'scripture') supported slavery - and if so, how opponents of slavery should respond. This important book not only illuminates the striking parallels between biblical criticism and constitutional interpretation, it will help Americans think through the racism at the root of so many of our institutions.' Dean Grodzins, author of American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
306.3/62097309034
Table Of Content
Acknowledgements; Prologue; Introduction; 1. 'Recourse must be had to the history of those times'; 2. 'The ground will shake'; 3. 'Texts ... designed for local and temporary use'; 4. 'The further we recede from the birth of the constitution'; 5. 'The culture of cotton has healed its deadly wound'; 6. 'Times now are not as they were'; 7. 'We have to do not ... with the past, but the living present'; 8. A 'Modern crispus attucks'; Conclusion; Epilogue; Index.
Synopsis
In the decades before the Civil War, Americans appealed to the nation's sacred religious and legal texts - the Bible and the Constitution - to address the slavery crisis. The ensuing political debates over slavery deepened interpreters' emphasis on historical readings of the sacred texts, and in turn, these readings began to highlight the unbridgeable historical distances that separated nineteenth-century Americans from biblical and founding pasts. While many Americans continued to adhere to a belief in the Bible's timeless teachings and the Constitution's enduring principles, some antislavery readers, including Theodore Parker, Frederick Douglass, and Abraham Lincoln, used historical distance to reinterpret and use the sacred texts as antislavery documents. By using the debate over American slavery as a case study, Jordan T. Watkins traces the development of American historical consciousness in antebellum America, showing how a growing emphasis on historical readings of the Bible and the Constitution gave rise to a sense of historical distance., Using the debate over American slavery as a case study, Jordan T. Watkins analyzes the development of historical consciousness in antebellum America, showing how Americans' appeal to the nations' sacred and religious texts - the Bible and the Constitution - gave rise to a growing sense of historical distance.
LC Classification Number
E449
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