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  • Chapter 7 - Race, American Enlightenment, and the End Times

  • from Part II - American Apocalypse in (and out of) History
  • Edited by John Hay, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Book:
    Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture
    Published online:
    03 December 2020
    Print publication:
    17 December 2020, pp 97-109

  • Summary

    This chapter examines eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century visions of apocalypse regarding the future of black lives in the American body politic. It begins with readings of Jefferson’s fear of a black planet in Notes on the State of Virginia and Crèvecoeur’s depictions of racial terror in Letters from an American Farmer. The chapter then investigates the writing of an African American herald of the end times, Christopher MacPherson. The chapter reads the apocalyptic jeremiad of MacPherson’s pamphlet, Christ’s Millennium (1811), as a reparative response to the suppression of black voices and the annihilation of black lives.