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Christianity, Slavery, and Genocide
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How Christian Slaveholders Used the Bible to Justify Slavery 2/23/2018 Time: "During
the period of American slavery, how did slaveholders manage to balance their
religious beliefs with the cruel facts of the “peculiar institution“? As shown
by the following passages — adapted from Noel Rae’s new book The Great Stain,
which uses firsthand accounts to tell the story of slavery in America — for some
of them that rationalization was right there in the Bible."
Gen. Kelly's Civil War Story Derives From 19th-Century Pro-Slavery
Evangelicalism 11/9/2017 Alternet: "This framework asserts that the Civil
War was not primarily about slavery, that slavery itself was not nearly as bad
as we are led to believe (in fact it was a “positive good” in that it exposed
Africans to the Gospel and to a “biblical family”). The war was framed as a
theological conflict in which Southern culture was an expression of a Godly
civilization battling against a materialistic “humanistic” one."
The Missing Black History At Some Civil War Memorials 8/31/2017 Black
Agenda Report: "Though I haven’t been to the site of Chicago’s Camp Douglas
monument since the 1980s I’m willing to bet the memorial exhibit says nothing
about the reason those four or five thousand white boys in Chicago and fifty
thousand more white boys in the other camps north and south died. They died
because by 1863 the federal armies began fielding regiments of black troops. By
war’s end there were more than 200,000 black soldiers in the Union Army, most of
them former slaves. The Confederates refused to treat captured black soldiers as
prisoners of war. Captured black soldiers were murdered on the spot, or sold
into slavery. White officers and noncoms leading black troops were supposed to
be tried and summarily executed for leading slave insurrection, a capital
offense, so they also took pains not to be captured alive."
How White Christians Used The Bible — And Confederate Flag — To Oppress Black
People 6/22/2017 Huff Post: "White Christians in the South didn’t just
support slavery — the Southern church was the backbone of the Confederacy and
its attempts to keep African Americans in bondage, according to Harry Stout,
Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Religious History at Yale University."
Black and White Race in American Denominations 3/1/2016 NAE: "The statement
by Martin Luther King, Jr., that “It is appalling that the most segregated hour
of Christian America is eleven o’clock on Sunday morning” still rings true."
Proslavery Ideology: Christian Beliefs 11/30/2015 University of Georgia
Did Religion Make the American Civil War Worse? 8/23/2015 Atlantic: "Above
all, it was a time when Christianity allied itself, in the most unambiguous and
unconditional fashion, to the actual waging of a war. In 1775, American soldiers
sang Yankee Doodle; in 1861, it was Glory, glory, hallelujah! As Stout argues,
the Civil War “would require not only a war of troops and armaments … it would
have to be augmented by moral and spiritual arguments that could steel millions
of men to the bloody business of killing one another...” Stout concentrates on
describing how Northerners, in particular, were bloated with this certainty."
Why Non-Slaveholding Southerners Fought 1/25/2011 Civil War
Trust: "Southern clergy defended the morality of slavery through an elaborate
scriptural defense built on the infallibility of the Bible, which they held up
as the universal and objective standard for moral issues. Religious messages
from pulpit and from a growing religious press accounted in large part for the
extreme, uncompromising, ideological atmosphere of the time."
Why Did So Many Christians Support Slavery?
www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-33/why-christians-supported-slavery.html
A Southern Christian View of Slavery: James Henry Thornwell
From The Annals of America: 1858-1865, The Crisis of the Union 1861
"THE ANTAGONISM of Northern and Southern sentiment on the subject of slavery
lies at the root of all the difficulties which have resulted in the
dismemberment of the federal Union, and involved us in the horrors of an
unnatural war."
The Religious Origins of Manifest Destiny
nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/mandestiny.htm
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