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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... literature on the religious justification for slavery is voluminous. Two studies were particularly helpful as I began to explore the so-called curse of Ham and its role in American racial discourse. The vii.
... literature on the religious justification for slavery is voluminous. Two studies were particularly helpful as I began to explore the so-called curse of Ham and its role in American racial discourse. The vii.
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... role as the patriarch of the first postdiluvian family.4 The second work is Thomas V. Peterson's Ham and Japheth in America, which traces the contours of the curse in the collective mind of the Old South and elucidates the ways it ...
... role as the patriarch of the first postdiluvian family.4 The second work is Thomas V. Peterson's Ham and Japheth in America, which traces the contours of the curse in the collective mind of the Old South and elucidates the ways it ...
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... 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 traditions of counterreading, and offers a ...
... 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 traditions of counterreading, and offers a ...
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... role as a justification for racial slavery eclipse its function as a scriptural explanation of either “blackness” in particular or servitude in general. As this summary indicates, it is not clear when to date the fateful conjunction of ...
... role as a justification for racial slavery eclipse its function as a scriptural explanation of either “blackness” in particular or servitude in general. As this summary indicates, it is not clear when to date the fateful conjunction of ...
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... role in the American defense of slavery was increasingly formalized. By the 1830s—when the American antislavery movement became organized, vocal, and aggressive—the scriptural defense of slavery had evolved into the “most elaborate and ...
... role in the American defense of slavery was increasingly formalized. By the 1830s—when the American antislavery movement became organized, vocal, and aggressive—the scriptural defense of slavery had evolved into the “most elaborate and ...
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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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