Jeremy Schipper is Professor of Religion at Temple University. This interview is based on his new book, Denmark Vesey’s Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial (Princeton University Press, 2022). JF: What led you to write...
Denmark Vesey
Was Denmark Vesey an Abolitionist or Terrorist?
Douglas Egerton, author of He Shall Go Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey and the recent The Wars of Reconstruction, asks this question in Tuesday’s New York Times.  He writes in light of the controversy surrounding the recent unveiling of a...