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Denmark Vesey's Bible : the thwarted revolt that put slavery and scripture on trial / Jeremy Schipper.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schipper, Jeremy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vesey, Denmark, approximately 1767-1822--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Vesey, Denmark.
- Bible--Black interpretations.
- Bible.
- Slavery and the church.
- Charleston (S.C.)--History--Slave Insurrection, 1822.
- Charleston (S.C.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxiii, 181 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Timeline of major events
- Preface - Introduction: Crimes of the blackest hue
- He shall surely be put to death
- By the mouth of witnesses
- With fear and trembling
- Now profitable
- They shall be your bondmen forever
- For he is his money - Epilogue: No respecter of persons - Appendix.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-691-21267-8
- 9780691212678
- 0691212678
- OCLC:
- 1250431553
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