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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).

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This volume opens on 13 November 1802, when Jefferson is in Washington, and closes on 3 March 1803, the final day of his second year as president. The central issue of these months is the closing of the right of deposit at New Orleans, an act that threatens the economic wellbeing of Westerners. Jefferson asks his old friend Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours to remind the French government of the strong friendship between the two nations. To disarm the political opposition, the president sends James Monroe, who is respected by the Federalists, to Europe as a special envoy to work with Robert Livingston in negotiating the dispute with France. Jefferson proposes a "bargain" that will result in the acquisition of the Louisiana Territory. In a confidential message to Congress, Jefferson seeks

Jefferson, Thomas, --- Aaron Burr. --- Act of Congress. --- Albert Gallatin. --- Alexander Wolcott. --- American Antiquarian Society. --- American National Biography. --- American Revolution. --- American frontier. --- Arthur St. Clair. --- Battle of Germantown. --- Battle of Tippecanoe. --- Benedict Arnold. --- Benjamin Hawkins. --- Benjamin Henry Latrobe. --- British Agent. --- Captain general. --- Cession. --- Charles Willson Peale. --- Citizens (Spanish political party). --- Citizenship of the United States. --- Commissioner. --- Consideration. --- Continental Congress. --- Daniel Carroll. --- David Meriwether (Kentucky). --- DeWitt Clinton. --- District attorney. --- Dry dock. --- Excellency. --- Federal Union. --- Fort Adams. --- Frederick the Great. --- Frigate. --- General Government. --- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. --- Governor of Kentucky. --- Henry Dearborn. --- Henry Greathead. --- Henry Knox. --- Horatio Gates. --- I Wish (manhwa). --- Indiana Territory. --- Intendant. --- Invoice. --- Jacob Crowninshield. --- James Garrard. --- James Lovell (Continental Congress). --- Jay Treaty. --- John Bartram. --- John Breckinridge (U.S. Attorney General). --- John Drayton. --- Joseph Dennie. --- Joseph Priestley. --- Law of the United States. --- Legislature. --- Marquis de Condorcet. --- Mary Jefferson Eppes. --- Meriwether Lewis. --- Monsieur. --- Naturalization Law of 1802. --- Naturalization. --- Newspaper. --- North Carolina. --- North West Company. --- Oliver Phelps. --- Oliver Wolcott. --- Patent. --- Payment. --- Pennsylvania Constitution. --- Petitioner. --- Presidency of George Washington. --- President of the United States. --- Proclamation. --- Publication. --- Rembrandt Peale. --- Republican faction (Spanish Civil War). --- Republicanism. --- Salutation. --- Secretary at War. --- Seneca people. --- Statute. --- Statutes at Large. --- The Columbian Orator. --- The History of England (Hume). --- The Papers of James Madison. --- Thomas Hobbes Scott. --- Thomas Jefferson Randolph. --- Thomas Jefferson. --- Thomas Paine. --- Thomas Sumter. --- Thomas Truxtun. --- Timothy Pickering. --- Tories (British political party). --- Travels (book). --- Treaty. --- United States Department of State. --- United States Revenue Cutter Service. --- Whigs (British political party). --- William Conner. --- William Wirt (Attorney General).