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It was the Lost Cause that started the Rebel State's revisionism. Not the history of the slavers and their justification for enslaving an entire race.Revisionist history.
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.
Out of the more than three quarters of a million words in the Bible, Christian slaveholders—and, if asked, most slaveholders would have defined themselves as Christian—had two favorites texts, one from the beginning of the Old Testament and the other from the end of the New Testament. In the words of the King James Bible, which was the version then current, these were, first, Genesis IX, 18–27:
How Christian Slaveholders Used the Bible to Justify Slavery
Read an excerpt from 'The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery' by Noel Rae
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