The Creation of Adam and the Biblical Origins of Race in The Slave’s Friend (1836–1838)
The creation of Adam out of dust is a familiar tradition from the Book of Genesis. In abolitionist literature of the nineteenth century, this biblical narrative became the basis for a theory about the origins of race, arguing that because Adam was formed from red clay, neither he nor his descendants...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI
2021
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Religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 12, Issue: 10 |
| Further subjects: | B
Adam
B Clay B Creation B Materiality B Myth B Taxonomy B Race B Genesis B Abolition B Whiteness |
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