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Biblical texts have been one of the most potent sources in the Western political imagination. Presenting a new account of how the Bible's liberationist texts were deployed and disputed at critical junctures in British and American history from the Reformation to the Civil Rights Movement,
John Coffey is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leicester
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Biblical Traditions that Call for Liberation"
Part I: Reformations, Revolutions, and Political Slavery
1. "The Only Parallel": The Puritan Revolution as England's Exodus
2. "God's Favourite People": The Revolutions of 1688 and 1776
Part II: Abolitionists, African Americans, and Racial Slavery
3. "Pretended Votaries of Freedom": The Rise of Protestant Antislavery to 1807
4. "Yours for the Jubilee": The Abolitionists' Scriptural Imagination, 1808-1865
5. "When Israel was in Egyptland": Black Exodus Politics, 1808-1865
Part III: Exodus after Slavery
6. "I Have Seen the Promised Land": The Persistence of Deliverance Politics, 1865-2008
Conclusion: Sacred Texts, Godly Readers, and Historical Change
Notes
Bibliography
Index