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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... prophetic. For in the succeeding years physical blindness would disable Palmer and ultimately hasten his death. According to eyewitnesses, Palmer never saw the streetcar that struck him down in 1902 while he attempted to cross the rails ...
... prophetic. For in the succeeding years physical blindness would disable Palmer and ultimately hasten his death. According to eyewitnesses, Palmer never saw the streetcar that struck him down in 1902 while he attempted to cross the rails ...
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... prophecy came to bear on Genesis 10, which was consistently read as an account of humanity's racial origins and as proof that “racial distinctions and national barriers proceed from God.”10 The Tower of Babel story in Genesis 11 has ...
... prophecy came to bear on Genesis 10, which was consistently read as an account of humanity's racial origins and as proof that “racial distinctions and national barriers proceed from God.”10 The Tower of Babel story in Genesis 11 has ...
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... prophecy. The constitutive elements in the application of Genesis 9 to New World servitude—the conviction that the ... prophetic outline of subsequent human history—were present in some of the earliest readings of Genesis 9 among Jews ...
... prophecy. The constitutive elements in the application of Genesis 9 to New World servitude—the conviction that the ... prophetic outline of subsequent human history—were present in some of the earliest readings of Genesis 9 among Jews ...
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... prophecy of Noah is the vade mecum of slaveholders, and they never venture abroad without it.”36 But some contemporary scholars have doubted what was self-evident to antislavery activists. In fact, the curse's role in the proslavery ...
... prophecy of Noah is the vade mecum of slaveholders, and they never venture abroad without it.”36 But some contemporary scholars have doubted what was self-evident to antislavery activists. In fact, the curse's role in the proslavery ...
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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 |
Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification of American Slavery Stephen R. Haynes,Stephen Ronald Haynes Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
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