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Egerton and Paquette have edited and annotated a wealth of archival material to create the authoritative one-volume documentary history of the Denmark Vesey insurrection of 1822.

Slave insurrections --- Slaves --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Slavery --- Slave rebellions --- Slave revolts --- Revolutions --- Insurrections, etc. --- Vesey, Denmark, --- Charleston (S.C.) --- History --- Slave insurrection, 1822 --- Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy, Charleston, S.C., 1822 --- Denmark Vesey Slave Insurrection, Charleston, S.C., 1822 --- Denmark Vesey's Rebellion, Charleston, S.C., 1822 --- Denmark Vesey's Revolt, Charleston, S.C., 1822 --- Vesey Rebellion, Charleston, S.C., 1822 --- Vesey Slave Conspiracy, Charleston, S.C., 1822 --- Vesey Slave Insurrection, Charleston, S.C., 1822 --- Vesey's Rebellion, Charleston, S.C., 1822 --- Vesey's Revolt, Charleston, S.C., 1822

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Early Americans claimed that they looked to "the Bible alone" for authority, but the Bible was never, ever alone. Bible Culture and Authority in the Early United States is a wide-ranging exploration of the place of the Christian Bible in America in the decades after the Revolution. Attending to both theoretical concerns about the nature of scriptures and to the precise historical circumstances of a formative period in American history, Seth Perry argues that the Bible was not a "source" of authority in early America, as is often said, but rather a site of authority: a cultural space for editors, commentators, publishers, preachers, and readers to cultivate authoritative relationships. While paying careful attention to early national bibles as material objects, Perry shows that "the Bible" is both a text and a set of relationships sustained by a universe of cultural practices and assumptions. Moreover, he demonstrates that Bible culture underwent rapid and fundamental changes in the early nineteenth century as a result of developments in technology, politics, and religious life. At the heart of the book are typical Bible readers, otherwise unknown today, and better-known figures such as Zilpha Elaw, Joseph Smith, Denmark Vesey, and Ellen White, a group that includes men and women, enslaved and free, Baptists, Catholics, Episcopalians, Methodists, Mormons, Presbyterians, and Quakers. What they shared were practices of biblical citation in writing, speech, and the performance of their daily lives. While such citation contributed to the Bible's authority, it also meant that the meaning of the Bible constantly evolved as Americans applied it to new circumstances and identities.

Christianity and culture --- RELIGION / History. --- American Bible Society. --- American bibles. --- Bible. --- Chloe Willey. --- Denmark Vesey. --- Ellen Harmon White. --- Fanny Newell. --- Isaac Childs. --- Joseph Smith. --- Lorenzo Dow. --- Mormonism. --- Mormons. --- Peggy Dow. --- The Vision of Isaac Childs. --- W. P. Strickland. --- Zilpha Elaw. --- authority of the Bible. --- authority. --- bible culture. --- bible readers. --- bible reading. --- bible usage. --- biblical roles. --- biblicism. --- citation. --- citationality. --- family bibles. --- family prayer. --- indexes. --- literacy. --- nation-building. --- national identity. --- performance. --- performed biblicism. --- political identity. --- preaching. --- print-bible culture. --- reference materials. --- religious authority. --- religious history. --- religious printing. --- religious subjectivity. --- scripturalization. --- typology. --- visionaries. --- visionary accounts. --- visionary authority. --- visionary texts.

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"This book provides a historical reconstruction of a famous trial in the antebellum American South in which the Bible was invoked alternatively by the prosecution and the defense as both a pro- and antislavery text"--

Slavery and the church. --- Vesey, Denmark, --- Trials, litigation, etc. --- Bible --- Black interpretations. --- Charleston (S.C.) --- History --- Abolitionism. --- African Methodist Episcopal Church. --- Algernon Sidney. --- Amalekites (Book of Mormon). --- American Colonization Society. --- Apologetics. --- Baptists. --- Bible society. --- Book of Judges. --- Book of Leviticus. --- Capital punishment. --- Catechism. --- Christianity. --- Confucianism. --- Daniel Payne. --- Denmark Vesey. --- Epistle to Philemon. --- Fall of man. --- Free negro. --- Fugitive Slave Clause. --- Generations of Noah. --- God. --- Gullah Jack. --- Hebrews. --- Henry Bibb. --- Israelites. --- James Osgood Andrew. --- Japheth. --- John 14. --- John Drayton. --- John Jea. --- John the Baptist. --- Justification (theology). --- Letters from an American Farmer. --- Lydia Maria Child. --- Martin Luther King, Jr. --- Methodism. --- Missouri Compromise. --- Morris Brown. --- Nat Turner. --- Nathaniel Ward. --- Negro Act of 1740. --- Old Testament. --- Ottobah Cugoano. --- Pamphlet. --- Pennsylvania Abolition Society. --- Religion. --- Richard Furman. --- Robert L. Paquette. --- Samuel Sewall. --- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. --- Slave rebellion. --- Slavery in the United States. --- Slavery. --- Spiritual (music). --- Stono Rebellion. --- The African Church. --- The Day of the Lord. --- The Exodus. --- Thomas Wentworth Higginson. --- Thou shalt not steal. --- Three Witnesses. --- Treason. --- Trial of the Six. --- Two witnesses. --- V. --- Workhouse. --- Zechariah (priest).