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Mar 12, 2024 · The first written use of the Curse of Ham to justify slavery appeared in the 15th century, when Gomes Eanes de Zurara, a Portuguese historian, wrote that the enchained Africans he’d seen were in ...
- Old Testament View on Slavery
- New Testament Views on Slavery
- Early Christian History
- American Slavery
- Division and Conflict
- Repression and The Bible
- White Protestant Superiority
- Interpretation and Apologetics
God is depicted as both approving of and regulating slavery, ensuring that the traffic and ownership of fellow human beings proceed in an acceptable manner. Passages referencing and condoning slavery are common in the Old Testament. In one place, we read: So, the immediate killing of a slave is punishable, but a man may so grievously injure a slave...
The New Testament also gave slave-supporting Christians fuel for their argument. Jesus never expressed disapproval of the enslaving of human beings, and many statements attributed to him suggest a tacit acceptance or even approval of that inhuman institution. Throughout the Gospels, we read passages like: Although Jesus used slavery to illustrate l...
There was almost universal approval of slavery among early Christian church leaders. Christians vigorously defended slavery (along with other forms of extreme social stratification) as instituted by God and as being an integral part of the natural order of men. These attitudes continued throughout European history, even as the institution of slaver...
The first ship bearing slaves for America landed in 1619, beginning over two centuries of human bondage on the American continent, the bondage that would eventually be called the "peculiar institution." This institution received theological support from various religious leaders, both in the pulpit and in the classroom. For example, through the lat...
As Northerners decried slavery and called for its abolition, Southern political and religious leaders found an easy ally for their pro-slavery cause in the Bible and Christian history. In 1856, the Rev. Thomas Stringfellow, a Baptist minister from Culpepper County, Virginia, put the pro-slavery Christian message succinctly in his "A Scriptural View...
The later repression and discrimination against the freed Black slaves received as much biblical and Christian support as the earlier institution of slavery itself. This discrimination and the enslavement of Blacks only was made on the basis of what has become known as the "sin of Ham" or "the curse of Canaan." Some said Blacks were inferior becaus...
A corollary to the inferiority of Blacks has long been the superiority of white Protestants. Although whites are not found in the Bible, that hasn't stopped members of groups like Christian Identity from using the Bible to prove that they are the chosen people or "true Israelites." Christian Identity is just a new kid on the block of white Protesta...
The cultural and personal assumptions of the slavery supporters seem obvious now, but they may not have been obvious to slavery apologists at the time. Similarly, contemporary Christians should be aware of the cultural and personal baggage that they bring to their reading of the Bible. Rather than searching for biblical passages that support their ...
Oct 11, 2024 · If the Bible is the inspired Word of God, how can it be so complicit in something as evil as slavery? There are a number of points worth making here. At a basic level, we need to remind ourselves that the kinds of slavery sanctioned by Moses in the Old Testament are nothing close to the chattel slavery which plagued the New World following the discovery of the Americas.
Feb 13, 2023 · She highlighted the presence of enslaved persons and ideologies of enslavement in Christian scriptures to demonstrate that there is not a single story about enslavement in the Bible. Rather, Christian stories and teachings express a variety of attitudes, aims, and assumptions about enslavement and involve complex relations between different groups in different ways.
The Bible and slavery. The Franks Casket is an 8th-century Anglo-Saxon whalebone casket, the back of which depicts the enslavement of the Jewish people at the lower right. The Bible contains many references to slavery, which was a common practice in antiquity. Biblical texts outline sources and the legal status of slaves, economic roles of ...
Feb 23, 2018 · The New Testament was largely ignored, except in the negative sense of pointing out that nowhere did Jesus condemn slavery, although the story of Philemon, the runaway who St. Paul returned to his ...
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Feb 23, 2021 · The Bible may not give us that elusive eleventh commandment, but given the bent of the Bible’s ethical codes, it is hardly surprising that one of the first writers — and perhaps the first writer — ever to challenge slavery as an institution was not a pagan Greek or Roman, but a Christian church father, Gregory of Nyssa. Gregory, born around the same time as Constantine’s death in the ...
