White men's magic: scripturalization as slavery
In this text the author ties the life of the Bible to the wider history of slavery and transatlantic movements by studying the encounter between the North Atlantic and Black African worlds.
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- Full title :White men's magic : scripturalization as slavery / Vincent L. Wimbush.
Summary
In this text the author ties the life of the Bible to the wider history of slavery and transatlantic movements by studying the encounter between the North Atlantic and Black African worlds.
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- Publication Date:©2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 294 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199873579, 0199873577
- oclc:ocn759910802
- LC Classification:E184.A1
- Dewey Decimal:305.800973
Table of Contents
"Unbounded influence over the credulity and superstition of the people": magic as slavery, slavery as magic -- "The White men had some spell or magic": a Black stranger's first contact with White men's magic -- "Every person there read the Bible": scripturalization as matrix of White men's magic -- "To the Britons first" the Gospel is preached": scripturalization in the nationalization of White men's magic -- "In the Bible, I saw things new": scripturalization and White men's magic -- "Take the book and tell God to make them dead": scripturalization as White men's hegemony -- "I could read it for myself": scripturalization, slavery, and agency.
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