Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial - Paperback
Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial - Paperback
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by Jeremy Schipper (Author)
"This book provides a historical reconstruction of a famous trial in the antebellum American South in which the Bible was invoked alternatively by the prosecution and the defense as both a pro- and antislavery text"--
Author Biography
Jeremy Schipper is professor in the Departments for the Study of Religion and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is the coauthor, with Nyasha Junior, of Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon and the author of Disability and Isaiah's Suffering Servant and Parables and Conflict in the Hebrew Bible. He lives in Toronto.
