A Piece of Earth: Political Theologies of Finitude and Futurity in African American and Indigenous Literature, 1770-1840

âNever give up your lands you now possess, for it is your right by God and nature, for the âearth was given to the children of men.ââ Quoting Psalm 115-16, the Jamaican preacher Robert Wedderburn announces a political order divested of individual forms of ownership. Instead, a ârightâ to land ultima...

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Main Author: Johnson, Shelby Lynn
Other Authors: Jonathan Lamb
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: VANDERBILT 2017
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Online Access:http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-07182017-133714/