Jordan T. Watkins

Slavery and Sacred Texts (eBook, PDF)

The Bible, the Constitution, and Historical Consciousness in Antebellum America

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

An analysis of the development of historical consciousness in antebellum America, using the debate over slavery as a case study.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108809955
• Artikelnr.: 70914628

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.