Slavery and sacred texts : the Bible, the Constitution, and historical consciousness in antebellum America / Jordan T. Watkins.
In the decades before the Civil War, Americans appealed to the nation's sacred religious and legal texts - the Bible and the Constitution - to address the slavery crisis. The ensuing political debates over slavery deepened interpreters' emphasis on historical readings of the sacred texts,...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2021.
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| Series: | Cambridge historical studies in American law and society.
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108784344 |
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