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04215aam a2200625 i 4500 001 8A02C39E8FC011ECBA4AA6A62FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220217010136 008 210611t20212021enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021027026 020 $a 110847814X 020 $a 9781108478144 035 $a (OCoLC)1224161410 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d EAU $d GWL $d OCLCO $d LNT $d NVS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E449 $b .W293 2021 084 $a HIS036040 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Watkins, Jordan, $e author. 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, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2021. 300 $a xxii, 376 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Cambridge historical studies in American law and society 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a "Recourse must be had to the history of those times" -- "The ground will shake" -- "Texts ... Designed for local and temporary use" -- "The further we recede from the birth of the Constitution" -- "The culture of cotton has healed its deadly wound" -- "Times now are not as they were" -- "We have to do not ... with the past, but the living present" -- A "modern Crispus Attucks". 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"-- $c Provided by the publisher. 610 10 $a United States. $t Constitution. 630 00 $a Bible $x Influence. 630 07 $a Bible. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01356024 630 07 $a Constitution (United States) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01356075 650 0 $a Antislavery movements $z United States. 650 0 $a Slavery $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Slavery $z United States $x Public opinion. 650 0 $a Slavery $x Christianity. $x Christianity. 650 0 $a Religion and politics $z United States. 650 0 $a Collective memory $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x History. $x History. 651 0 $a United States $x Religion. 650 7 $a Antislavery movements. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00810800 650 7 $a Collective memory. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01739814 650 7 $a Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00972484 650 7 $a Race relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086509 650 7 $a Religion. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01093763 650 7 $a Religion and politics. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01093842 650 7 $a Slavery. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01120426 650 7 $a Slavery $x Public opinion. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01120485 650 7 $a Slavery $x Christianity. $x Christianity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01120488 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Watkins, Jordan T. $t Slavery and sacred texts $d Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 $z 9781108784344 $w (DLC) 2021027027 830 0 $a Cambridge historical studies in American law and society. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231019024416.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8A02C39E8FC011ECBA4AA6A62FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search