Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification of American SlaveryOxford University Press, 2002 M03 28 - 322 páginas "A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." So reads Noah's curse on his son Ham, and all his descendants, in Genesis 9:25. Over centuries of interpretation, Ham came to be identified as the ancestor of black Africans, and Noah's curse to be seen as biblical justification for American slavery and segregation. Examining the history of the American interpretation of Noah's curse, this book begins with an overview of the prior history of the reception of this scripture and then turns to the distinctive and creative ways in which the curse was appropriated by American pro-slavery and pro-segregation interpreters. |
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... antebellum Southerners when their peculiar institution came under attack after 1830.5 Peterson clarifies the “mythic” quality of the curse by carefully noting the cultural functions of Genesis 9:20–27 in the Old South. Drawing on the ...
... antebellum Southerners when their peculiar institution came under attack after 1830.5 Peterson clarifies the “mythic” quality of the curse by carefully noting the cultural functions of Genesis 9:20–27 in the Old South. Drawing on the ...
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... antebellum America. Part III deals with the role played by Genesis 9–11 in the theological and social thought of influential Presbyterian divine Benjamin Morgan Palmer. And part IV revisits the history of interpretation, focuses on ...
... antebellum America. Part III deals with the role played by Genesis 9–11 in the theological and social thought of influential Presbyterian divine Benjamin Morgan Palmer. And part IV revisits the history of interpretation, focuses on ...
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... antebellum proslavery argument. By locating American readings of Genesis 9 within the history of biblical interpretation, the distinctive features in proslavery versions of the curse are clarified. Overwhelmingly, these reflect two ...
... antebellum proslavery argument. By locating American readings of Genesis 9 within the history of biblical interpretation, the distinctive features in proslavery versions of the curse are clarified. Overwhelmingly, these reflect two ...
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... antebellum South, and the American Civil War, he was composing a prelude to the twentieth-century scholarly quest for the lineaments of the Southern character. The quest was officially launched in 1941 in W. J. Cash's impressionistic ...
... antebellum South, and the American Civil War, he was composing a prelude to the twentieth-century scholarly quest for the lineaments of the Southern character. The quest was officially launched in 1941 in W. J. Cash's impressionistic ...
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... antebellum culture, it served as a thematic link between racist readings of Genesis 9–11 before and after the Civil War. Precisely because Noah's curse was so clearly applicable to the question of slavery, its postwar relevance was not ...
... antebellum culture, it served as a thematic link between racist readings of Genesis 9–11 before and after the Civil War. Precisely because Noah's curse was so clearly applicable to the question of slavery, its postwar relevance was not ...
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HONOR AND ORDER | 63 |
NOAHS CAMERA | 123 |
REDEEMING THE CURSE | 175 |
Notes | 223 |
Bibliography | 299 |
Index | 314 |
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Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification of American Slavery Stephen R. Haynes Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification of American Slavery Stephen R. Haynes Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
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