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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... argument for slavery. Peterson also cites a great many works by proslavery intellectuals, many of which are referred to in this study. Nevertheless, this project expands on Peterson's work in important ways: by placing American readings ...
... argument for slavery. Peterson also cites a great many works by proslavery intellectuals, many of which are referred to in this study. Nevertheless, this project expands on Peterson's work in important ways: by placing American readings ...
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... argument might, perhaps, be made in support of that wild proposition. . . . [The Southern] character can be traced rather more easily to Sir Walter's influence than to that of any other thing or person.28 This reference to the immensely ...
... argument might, perhaps, be made in support of that wild proposition. . . . [The Southern] character can be traced rather more easily to Sir Walter's influence than to that of any other thing or person.28 This reference to the immensely ...
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... argument, is an exploration of the passion for order that pervades American readings of Noah's curse. Although order was not a distinctively Southern feature of antebellum culture, it served as a thematic link between racist readings of ...
... argument, is an exploration of the passion for order that pervades American readings of Noah's curse. Although order was not a distinctively Southern feature of antebellum culture, it served as a thematic link between racist readings of ...
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... argument has been questioned recently on several grounds, including the claim that it was “largely passe ́ among intellectual elites,”37 the supposed difficulty literal interpreters of the Bible would have in applying Noah's malediction ...
... argument has been questioned recently on several grounds, including the claim that it was “largely passe ́ among intellectual elites,”37 the supposed difficulty literal interpreters of the Bible would have in applying Noah's malediction ...
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... arguments were no longer required. The significance of Noah's curse in American slavery debates cannot be appreciated ... argument. The curse became indispensable precisely because, according to culturally sanctioned views of the Bible ...
... arguments were no longer required. The significance of Noah's curse in American slavery debates cannot be appreciated ... argument. The curse became indispensable precisely because, according to culturally sanctioned views of the Bible ...
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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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