The Oracle and the Curse : A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War /
"Condemned to hang after his raid on Harper's Ferry, John Brown prophesied that the crimes of a slave-holding land would be purged away only with blood. A study of omens, maledictions, and inspired invocations, The Oracle and the Curse examines how utterances such as Brown's shaped Am...
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
2013
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The poetics of Justice
- Oracles of Law
- Oracles of God
- Blasphemy "at the court of Hell"
- Evil Speaking, "a bridle for the unbridled tongue"
- The Curse of Slavery
- Words of Fire
- Epilogue: The Curse at Sea