Slavery and Sacred Texts
Watkins, Jordan T.![Slavery and Sacred Texts](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/438/43838739/CHSBZCOP0343838739.jpg)
Using the debate over American slavery as a case study, Jordan T. Watkins analyzes the development of historical consciousness in antebellum America, showing how Americans' appeal to the nations' sacred and religious texts - the Bible and the Constitution - gave rise to a growing sense of historical distance.