Inconsistent contextualism: The hermeneutics of Michael Johnson

William and Mary Quarterly

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 153-156

  Robertson, David ^a  

^a Literature and Languages Department   (United States)

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EID: 70449889833     PISSN: 00435597     EISSN: 1933-769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3491644     Document Type: Review

References (7)

1. Johnson, "Denmark Vesey and His Co-Conspirators," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 58 (2001), 915-76 (references to this article are in parentheses in the text)
2. Michel Foucault, "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History," in Language, Counter Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews, ed. Donald F. Bouchard, trans. Bouchard and Sherry Simon (Ithaca, 1977), 164
3. Gross to Robertson, June 8, 2001
4. Ida Pennella, "The Evolution of the Court Reporting Profession" (M. A. thesis, California State University, Fullerton, 1993), 15-16
5. Beach's correspondence is quoted and cited in David M. Robertson, Denmark Vesey (New York, 2000), 100-02, 107-09, 114, 140, 169, 185-87, 190
6. "Testimony of William Paul, Trial of Mingo Hearth," The Trial Record of Denmark Vesey (Boston, 1970), 85. My point is that unfamiliar or heretical logia can just as easily be used to justify the continuation of a slave society. Consider, for example, that among the first of antebellum writers to have used the then-unfamiliar word "sociology" in print was George Fitzhugh in 1854
7. Robertson, Denmark Vesey, 179-80 n. 57