Slavery and Sacred Texts - Jordan T. Watkins

Slavery and Sacred Texts

The Bible, the Constitution, and Historical Consciousness in Antebellum America
Buch | Hardcover
400 Seiten
2021
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-47814-4 (ISBN)
59,80 inkl. MwSt
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. 
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.

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.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 159 x 235 mm
Gewicht 750 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Recht / Steuern Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-108-47814-X / 110847814X
ISBN-13 978-1-108-47814-4 / 9781108478144
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