Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification of American Slavery"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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... Given that Palmer probably composed thousands of letters during his adult life, it is strangely appropriate that this one alone is preserved on the campus of his beloved college. Not only does it offer a personal glimpse of the man ...
... Given that Palmer probably composed thousands of letters during his adult life, it is strangely appropriate that this one alone is preserved on the campus of his beloved college. Not only does it offer a personal glimpse of the man ...
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... given the problems of applying Noah's curse to racial servitude, why do we not find more explicit attention to “race” in antebellum works that invoke the curse? Thomas Peterson illumined these questions more than two decades ago when he ...
... given the problems of applying Noah's curse to racial servitude, why do we not find more explicit attention to “race” in antebellum works that invoke the curse? Thomas Peterson illumined these questions more than two decades ago when he ...
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... given—as Noah's identity as the first planter patriarch or the Bible's applicability to American society. Noah's Camera Because it traces the lingering influence of Genesis 9–11 after the Civil War, this study implicitly challenges ...
... given—as Noah's identity as the first planter patriarch or the Bible's applicability to American society. Noah's Camera Because it traces the lingering influence of Genesis 9–11 after the Civil War, this study implicitly challenges ...
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... given to Palmer by historians and scholars of religion, his reliance on Genesis 9–11 as a divinely revealed blueprint for human societies has been ignored. For instance, in a recent study entitled Gospel of Disunion, Mitchell Snay ...
... given to Palmer by historians and scholars of religion, his reliance on Genesis 9–11 as a divinely revealed blueprint for human societies has been ignored. For instance, in a recent study entitled Gospel of Disunion, Mitchell Snay ...
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... given rise to a number of interpretive schemes involving the early chapters of Genesis, all of them racist in some degree. One involves the idea that Cain left his family to master an inferior tribe described alternately by pre-Adamite ...
... given rise to a number of interpretive schemes involving the early chapters of Genesis, all of them racist in some degree. One involves the idea that Cain left his family to master an inferior tribe described alternately by pre-Adamite ...
Contents
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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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