Denmark Vesey''s Bible - The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial

"This book provides a historical reconstruction of a famous trial in the antebellum American South in which the Bible was invoked alternatively by the prosecution and the defense as both a pro- and antislavery text"--

About the author

Jeremy Schipper is professor in the Departments for the Study of Religion and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is the coauthor, with Nyasha Junior, of Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon and the author of Disability and Isaiah’s Suffering Servant and Parables and Conflict in the Hebrew Bible. He lives in Toronto.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Schipper, Jeremy (Professor in the Departments of Schipper, Schipper Jeremy
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.04.2024
• EAN: 9780691259314
• ISBN: 978-0-691-25931-4
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, RELIGION / Christian Theology / History, RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, History of the Americas, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Biography: historical, political and military, Slavery and abolition of slavery, HISTORY / African American & Black, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / African American & Black