Search Results: The Story Of Liberty by James Baldwin

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xiv, 286, [2] pages. Slight DJ soiling. Published with assistance from the Annie Burr Lewis Fund and the Louis Stern Memorable Fund. Inscribed on the title page. Inscription reads 9/17/06 To Peter, In friendship and admiration. Allan Dwight Callahan. Includes bibliographical references and index, as well as chapters on African Americans--Religion and Afrocentrism, and African Americans--Religion. Includes Acknowledgments, Prologue, Postscript, Notes, Subject Index, and Scripture Index. The Bible has influenced African Americans throughout history. This book is the first to explore the Bible's role in the black experience. Using the bible as a foundation, African Americans shared religious beliefs, created their own music, and shaped the ultimate key to their freedom--literacy. Callahan highlights the intersection of biblical images with African-American music, politics, religion, art, and literature. The… Read More

London: Printed for John Morphew,, 1713. Defoe refutes the Dissenters First edition of Defoe's pamphlet, in a contemporary volume of tracts chiefly on religious dissent and the question of tolerance, especially with regard to the debate on the Schism Act of 1714, which sought to curtail Dissenter schools and require licensing of all schools by Anglican bishops. Defoe's Letter gave "a tough admonition to the Dissenters, saying that they enjoy great privileges at present, the Queen having undertaken to maintain the Toleration and even having for long resisted the Act against Occasional Conformity. The Dissenters have their own schools, which, strictly speaking, is against the law. Thus it would be madness on their part to join with the discontented Whigs - especially as they have recently been betrayed by the Whigs. The Whig insistence on the Hanoverian succession is making the Hanoverian prince a figure of alarm, as if on accession his first preoccupation would be vengeance" (Furbank and Owens). The… Read More