Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification of American SlaveryOxford University Press, 28/03/2002 - 322 من الصفحات "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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... myth of racial hierarchy. The infusion of Christian anthropology with racial or national myths has always spelled apostasy, as it did in Palmer's case. Graciously, Palmer was afforded a final opportunity to correct his flawed vision ...
... myth of racial hierarchy. The infusion of Christian anthropology with racial or national myths has always spelled apostasy, as it did in Palmer's case. Graciously, Palmer was afforded a final opportunity to correct his flawed vision ...
الصفحة viii
... myth” whose appeal was based in part on Noah's traditional association with the invention of agriculture and his role as the patriarch of the first postdiluvian family.4 The second work is Thomas V. Peterson's Ham and Japheth in America ...
... myth” whose appeal was based in part on Noah's traditional association with the invention of agriculture and his role as the patriarch of the first postdiluvian family.4 The second work is Thomas V. Peterson's Ham and Japheth in America ...
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... myth was first invoked as a justification for human thralldom. In fact, it appears that race and slavery were first consciously combined in readings of Genesis 9 by Muslim exegetes during the ninth and tenth centuries, though these ...
... myth was first invoked as a justification for human thralldom. In fact, it appears that race and slavery were first consciously combined in readings of Genesis 9 by Muslim exegetes during the ninth and tenth centuries, though these ...
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... myth” to the proslavery argument? Was it purely “popular,” effective only at “the level of propaganda and mass consciousness”?39 Should references to the curse in the works of proslavery intellectuals be read as concessions to popular ...
... myth” to the proslavery argument? Was it purely “popular,” effective only at “the level of propaganda and mass consciousness”?39 Should references to the curse in the works of proslavery intellectuals be read as concessions to popular ...
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... mythology forged by the leaders of the Christian Identity movement in America. As Michael Barkun has shown in his masterful account of the intellectual origins of this movement, contemporary Identity has its roots in the tradition of ...
... mythology forged by the leaders of the Christian Identity movement in America. As Michael Barkun has shown in his masterful account of the intellectual origins of this movement, contemporary Identity has its roots in the tradition of ...
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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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