Slavery and sacred texts : the Bible, the Constitution, and historical consciousness in Antebellum America / Jordan T. Watkins.

"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 tex...

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מחבר ראשי: Watkins, Jordan (Author)
פורמט: ספר
שפה:English
יצא לאור: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
סדרה:Cambridge historical studies in American law and society.
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