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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... death in 1902, the institution remained extremely dear to him. Just one document from Palmer's hand has been preserved in the Rhodes College archives, but it typifies his great fondness for the place. In May of 1889, Palmer wrote from ...
... death in 1902, the institution remained extremely dear to him. Just one document from Palmer's hand has been preserved in the Rhodes College archives, but it typifies his great fondness for the place. In May of 1889, Palmer wrote from ...
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... death. According to eyewitnesses, Palmer never saw the streetcar that struck him down in 1902 while he attempted to cross the rails near his New Orleans home. The image of blindness invoked by Palmer in 1889 was prophetic in another way ...
... death. According to eyewitnesses, Palmer never saw the streetcar that struck him down in 1902 while he attempted to cross the rails near his New Orleans home. The image of blindness invoked by Palmer in 1889 was prophetic in another way ...
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... Death (1982), and Kenneth Greenberg's Honor and Slavery (1996).32 Of particular interest for these second-generation scholars has been the nexus between white Southerners' cult of honor and their advocacy of slavery. In a variety of ...
... Death (1982), and Kenneth Greenberg's Honor and Slavery (1996).32 Of particular interest for these second-generation scholars has been the nexus between white Southerners' cult of honor and their advocacy of slavery. In a variety of ...
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... death in 1902.47 In sermons from the pulpit of New Orleans's First Church—arguably the most prestigious Presbyterian post in the South—Palmer “raise[d] the function of the clergy as ennobler and defender of Southern traditions to ...
... death in 1902.47 In sermons from the pulpit of New Orleans's First Church—arguably the most prestigious Presbyterian post in the South—Palmer “raise[d] the function of the clergy as ennobler and defender of Southern traditions to ...
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... death following emancipation. But Palmer represents a tradition of American interpretation in which Noah's “prophecy” (he never used the word curse with reference to Genesis 9) applies to race relations in general rather than to slavery ...
... death following emancipation. But Palmer represents a tradition of American interpretation in which Noah's “prophecy” (he never used the word curse with reference to Genesis 9) applies to race relations in general rather than to slavery ...
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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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