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.
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.
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Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
Jordan T. Watkins is an assistant professor of church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University. Previously, he was a coeditor at The Joseph Smith Papers Project.
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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.
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.
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