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- Insular Manuscripts
- History and Security Sector Reform
- The Carceral Archipelago
- Flood and Flow
- Charnwood Roots
- Healthy Citizens
- Disputed Bodies
- Fear Across Borders
- Rough Skin
- The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain
- Consuming Authenticities
- Crusading in the Fifteenth Century
- The Habitable City
- Motor Cities
- A Scholarly Edition of Richard Baxters Reliquiae Baxterianae
- Pauper letters and petitions for poor relief in Germany and Great Britain
- Health care in public and private
- British Abolitionists and Protestant Millennialism
- Heresy and Orthodoxy in the works of Bede
- Integrated Histories of the Andaman Islands
- Internationalism Ideology and the debate over US entry into World War II
- Un Americans
- Sickness poverty and medical relief in England
- Anglo American Liberation Theology from the Puritans to the Abolitionists
- Death and community in rural settlements
- Sport and the Imperial bond
- New world plants in Italy
History at Leicester
'Let my People Go!': Anglo- American Liberation Theology from the Puritans to the Abolitionists
AHRC Research Leave (£33,943)
September 2010-January 2011
Professor John Coffey
The story of Israel’s Exodus from Egyptian bondage has often inspired radical politics. It is a favourite text of modern liberation theologians, among them the former pastor of President Obama, the Rev Dr Jeremiah Wright Jr. But modern appeals to Exodus are part of an older tradition within English-speaking Protestantism. Oliver Cromwell, William III and George Washington were each hailed as a new Moses long before Martin Luther King declared that he had seen the Promised Land. This project will explore the various ways in which the idea of divine liberation from slavery was used by preachers and activists from John Milton in the Puritan Revolution to Frederick Douglass in antebellum America. It will show how abolitionists and African-Americans took the familiar Protestant rhetoric of deliverance and turned it against the institution of racial slavery.