Denmark Vesey's Bible (eBook)

The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial

Jeremy Schipper (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
216 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21267-8 (ISBN)

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A timely and provocative account of the Bible's role in one of the most consequential episodes in the history of slaveryOn July 2, 1822, Denmark Vesey, a formerly enslaved man, was hanged in Charleston, South Carolina. He was convicted of plotting what might have been the largest insurrection against slaveholders in US history. Witnesses claimed that Vesey appealed to numerous biblical texts to promote and justify the revolt. While sentencing Vesey to death, Lionel Henry Kennedy, a magistrate at the trial, accused Vesey not only of treason but also of ';attempting to pervert the sacred words of God into a sanction for crimes of the blackest hue.' Denmark Vesey's Bible tells the story of this momentous trial, examining the role of scriptural interpretation in the deadly struggle against American white supremacy and its brutal enforcement.Jeremy Schipper brings the trial and its aftermath vividly to life, drawing on court documents, personal letters, sermons, speeches, and editorials. He shows how Vesey compared people of African descent with enslaved Israelites in the Bible, while his accusers portrayed plantation owners as benevolent biblical patriarchs responsible for providing religious instruction to the enslaved. What emerges is an explosive portrait of an antebellum city in the grips of racial terror, violence, and contending visions of biblical truth.Shedding light on the uses of scripture in America's troubled racial history, Denmark Vesey's Bible draws vital lessons from a terrible moment in the nation's past, enabling us to confront racism and religious discord today with renewed urgency and understanding.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 7 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • African Methodist Episcopal Church • Algernon Sidney • Amalekites (Book of Mormon) • American Colonization Society • Apologetics • Baptists • Bible • Bible Society • bird • Book of Joshua • Book of Judges • Book of Leviticus • Books of Chronicles • books of Samuel • Capital punishment • Catechism • Christian Church • Christianity • Confucianism • Coromantee • Cush (Bible) • Daniel Payne • Denmark Vesey • Deuterocanonical Books • Divine right of kings • Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church • Epistle to Philemon • Epistle to the Hebrews • Eugene Genovese • Exegesis • Fall of Man • Fear and Trembling • Free negro • Fugitive Slave Clause • Generations of Noah • God • Gullah Jack • hanging • Hebrews • henry bibb • israelites • James Osgood Andrew • Japheth • John 14 • John Drayton • John Jea • John the Baptist • Justification (theology) • Letters from an American Farmer • Lorenzo Dow • Lydia Maria Child • manumission • Martin Luther King, Jr. • Methodism • Missouri Compromise • Morehouse College • Morris Brown • Nathaniel Ward • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • nat turner • Necessity • Negro Act of 1740 • Old Testament • Ottobah Cugoano • Pamphlet • Pennsylvania Abolition Society • peor • perjury • Phut • public humiliation • Raamah • Religion • Richard Furman • Robert L. Paquette • Robert Purvis • Samuel Sewall • Sermon on the Mount • sinners in the hands of an angry god • Slave Rebellion • Slavery • Slavery in the United States • Spiritual (music) • Stono Rebellion • The African Church • The Day of the Lord • The Eighth (United States) • The Exodus • Theology • Thomas Wentworth Higginson • Thou shalt not steal • Three Witnesses • To this Day • Treason • Trial of the Six • two witnesses • V. • W. E. B. Du Bois • workhouse • Zechariah (priest)
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21267-8 / 0691212678
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21267-8 / 9780691212678