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Author Davis, David Brion.

Title In the image of God : religion, moral values, and our heritage of slavery / David Brion Davis.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2001]
©2001

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 Moore Stacks  HT871 .D28 2001    Available  ---
Description 392 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1. From religion to slavery. -- Reinhold Niebuhr : an American Jeremiah -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Religion and American culture -- The other Zion : American Jews and the meritocratic experiment -- The slave trade and the Jews -- Jews and Blacks in America -- pt. 2. Historians of two generations. -- The rebel : C. Vann Woodward -- A tribute to Woodward -- Southern comfort : Eugene D. Genovese -- pt. 3. Origins. -- At the heart of slavery -- Slaves in Islam -- A big business -- The triumph of the country -- The labyrinth of slavery -- The significance of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 -- The benefit of slavery -- Capitalism, abolitionism, and hegemony -- pt. 4. The violence of slavery as experienced. -- The white world of Frederick Douglass -- Life and death in slavery -- The ends of slavery -- White wives and slave mothers -- Terror in Mississippi -- pt. 5. From the construction of race to the American dilemma and the feminist revolution. -- Constructing race : a reflection -- The culmination of racial polarities and prejudice -- The American dilemma -- The other revolution.
Provenance Gift of Dr. James H. Poivan, Professor of History, Emeritus.
Subject Slavery.
Slavery.
Slavery -- United States.
United States.
Slavery -- Book reviews.
Genre/Form Book reviews.
Subject Slave trade.
Slave trade.
Slavery and Judaism.
Slavery and Judaism.
Slavery and Islam.
Slavery and Islam.
Religion and culture.
Religion and culture.
Genre/Form Book reviews.
Reviews.
Reviews.
ISBN 0300088140 alkaline paper
9780300088144 alkaline paper