Denmark Vesey's Bible : the thwarted revolt that put slavery and scripture on trial
(2022)
By:
Schipper, Jeremy
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
975.7915/SCHIPPER,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2022]
©2022
©2022
DESCRIPTION
xxxiv, 181 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780691192864, 0691192863, 9780691192864
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"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"--