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From Jamestown to Jefferson: The Evolution of Religious Freedom in Virginia (Signed)
Rasor, Paul [Editor]; Bond, Richard E. [Editor]; Morgan, Philip D.
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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. [Personal copy renowned historian, Philip D. Morgan, with his signature.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. viii, 203 p., 22 cm. Morgan authored the essay, "Religious Diversity in Colonial Virginia: Red, Black, and White" featured in this volume.… *Autographed by author.* "From Jamestown to Jefferson sheds new light on the contexts surrounding Thomas Jefferson's Statute for Religious Freedom--and on the emergence of the American understanding of religious freedom--by examining its deep roots in colonial Virginia's remarkable religious diversity. Challenging traditional assumptions about life in early Virginia, the essays in this volume show that the colony was more religious, more diverse, and more tolerant than commonly supposed. The presence of groups as disparate as Quakers, African and African American slaves, and Presbyterians, alongside the established Anglicans, generated a dynamic tension between religious diversity and attempts at hegemonic authority that was apparent from Virginia's earliest days." From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998). Signed.
