Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial - Paperback

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.