Title Denmark Vesey's Bible : the thwarted revolt that put slavery and scripture on trial / Jeremy Schipper.

Publication Info.

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2022]

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction	973.791 SCHIPPER	Check Shelf

Description	xxxiv, 181 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Vesey, Denmark, approximately 1767-1822 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
	Bible -- Black interpretations.
	Slave rebellions -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History.
	Slavery and the church.
	Charleston (S.C.) -- History -- Slave Insurrection, 1822.
	HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
	Vesey, Denmark, approximately 1767-1822. (OCoLC)fst01855871
	Bible. (OCoLC)fst01356024
	Black interpretations of sacred works. (OCoLC)fst01907299
	Slave insurrections. (OCoLC)fst01120389
	Slavery and the church. (OCoLC)fst01120512
	South Carolina -- Charleston. (OCoLC)fst01204603
	Slave Insurrection (Charleston, South Carolina : 1822) (OCoLC)fst01410716
Chronological Term	1822
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Trials, litigation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01423712
Other Form:	Online version: Schipper, Jeremy. Denmark Vesey's Bible. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2022 9780691212678 (DLC) 2021016615
ISBN	9780691192864 hardcover ; alkaline paper
	0691192863 hardcover ; alkaline paper
	9780691212678 electronic book

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