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Feb 23, 2018 · How Christian Slaveholders Used the Bible to Justify Slavery. 6 minute read. A bible Michael Dümmler— EyeEm&/Getty Images. By Noel Rae. February 23, 2018 3:30 PM EST.
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For example, in the Hebrew Bible, Moses tells the Israelites on the way to the Promised Land how they should acquire and keep slaves (Lev 25:44-46). His successor, Joshua, explains that “some of you shall always be slaves” (Josh 9:23). Similarly, in the New Testament, Paul admonishes, “Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and ...
- 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 ...
Nonetheless, pro-slavery Europeans defined the "non-Israelites" of Leviticus 25:44-46 as non-Christians and later as non-white people. Watts suggested that they used the Bible's two-tier model to justify enslaving Africans and Native Americans while limiting white forced laborers to indentured servants and prisoners. [114]
Jun 27, 2018 · How Antebellum Christians Justified Slavery. After Emancipation, some Southern Protestants refused to revise their proslavery views. In their minds, slavery had been divinely sanctioned. The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Having split from co-denominations in the North over the theological justification of slavery ...
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 ...
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May 6, 2019 · Then Africans made it their path to freedom. The Bible was used to justify slavery. Then Africans made it their path to freedom. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) An exhibit discussing slavery and the ...
