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02458aam a22003498i 4500 001 E23FCD1C4D4311EEBB1CF29156ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230907010029 008 230123r20232021enk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1108746896 020 $a 9781108746892 035 $a (OCoLC)1368271334 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d YDX $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d OKG $d SILO 100 1 $a Watkins, Jordan, $e author. $1 https://isni.org/isni/0000000373318960. 245 10 $a Slavery and sacred texts : $b the Bible, the constitution, and historical consciousness in antebellum America / $c Jordan T. Watkins. 264 1 $a Cambridge : $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2023. 300 $a 398 pages. 490 1 $a Cambridge historical studies in American law and society 500 $a Originally published: 2021. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a 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, and in turn, these readings began to highlight the unbridgeable historical distances that separated nineteenth-century Americans from biblical and founding pasts. While many Americans continued to adhere to a belief in the Bible's timeless teachings and the Constitution's enduring principles, some antislavery readers, including Theodore Parker, Frederick Douglass, and Abraham Lincoln, used historical distance to reinterpret and use the sacred texts as antislavery documents. By using the debate over American slavery as a case study, Jordan T. Watkins traces the development of American historical consciousness in antebellum America, showing how a growing emphasis on historical readings of the Bible and the Constitution gave rise to a sense of historical distance. 610 10 $a United States. $t Constitution. 630 00 $a Bible. 650 0 $a Slavery and the church $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Slavery $x Religious aspects. 651 0 $a Slavery $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 830 0 $a Cambridge historical studies in American law and society. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240305042142.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E23FCD1C4D4311EEBB1CF29156ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search