Donald Trump reveals cruel abuse by his parents

[Andrew Anglin]

"This is hard to talk about but, when I was just a child, my parents,

without my consent, took away my God given freedom to die of polio."
Many southerners are still angry that a Yankee took away their God given
right to own slaves



The Bible, writen most recently by a British King but originally a book of
fables by ignorant bronze age sand niggers and jews, clearly justified lazy
white southerners of the USA to own blacks. The South lost the war over
slavery because they were mostly lazy, slow talking, slow thinking rubes who
couldn't cut it if not for the black man doing their labor.


Jesus was as white as OJ Simpson.


How Christian Slaveholders Used the Bible to Justify Slavery


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:
Bomb Targeting Mosque in Kabul Kills a ‘Number of Civilians’

“And the sons of Noah that went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and
Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. These are the three sons of Noah:
and of them was the whole world overspread. And Noah began to be an
husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was
drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan,
saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem
and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went
backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were
backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness. And Noah awoke from his
wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be
Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said,
Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall
enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be
his servant. And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.”

Despite some problems with this story—What was so terrible about seeing Noah
drunk? Why curse Canaan rather than Ham? How long was the servitude to last?
Surely Ham would have been the same color as his brothers?—it eventually
became the foundational text for those who wanted to justify slavery on
Biblical grounds. In its boiled-down, popular version, known as “The Curse of
Ham,” Canaan was dropped from the story, Ham was made black, and his
descendants were made Africans.

The other favorite came from the Apostle Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians, VI,
5-7: “Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the
flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
not with eye-service, as men-pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing
the will of God from the heart; with good will doing service, as to the Lord,
and not to men: knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same
shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.” (Paul repeated
himself, almost word for word, in the third chapter of his Epistle to the
Colossians.)
Paid Partner Content
Four Ally interns found a way to teach financial education to America’s
youth.
By Ally Financial

The rest of the Old Testament was often mined by pro-slavery polemicists for
examples proving that slavery was common among the Israelites. 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 master, was often quoted. It was also
generally accepted that the Latin word servus, usually translated as servant,
really meant slave.

***

Even apparent abuses, when looked at in the right light, worked out for the
best, in the words of Bishop William Meade of Virginia. Suppose, for example,
that you have been punished for something you did not do, “is it not possible
you may have done some other bad thing which was never discovered and that
Almighty God, who saw you doing it, would not let you escape without
punishment one time or another? And ought you not in such a case to give
glory to Him, and be thankful that He would rather punish you in this life
for your wickedness than destroy your souls for it in the next life? But
suppose that even this was not the case—a case hardly to be imagined—and that
you have by no means, known or unknown, deserved the correction you suffered;
there is this great comfort in it, that if you bear it patiently, and leave
your cause in the hands of God, He will reward you for it in heaven, and the
punishment you suffer unjustly here shall turn to your exceeding great glory
hereafter.”

Bishop Stephen Elliott, of Georgia, also knew how to look on the bright side.
Critics of slavery should “consider whether, by their interference with this
institution, they may not be checking and impeding a work which is manifestly
Providential. For nearly a hundred years the English and American Churches
have been striving to civilize and Christianize Western Africa, and with what
result? Around Sierra Leone, and in the neighborhood of Cape Palmas, a few
natives have been made Christians, and some nations have been partially
civilized; but what a small number in comparison with the thousands, nay, I
may say millions, who have learned the way to Heaven and who have been made
to know their Savior through the means of African slavery! At this very
moment there are from three to four millions of Africans, educating for earth
and for Heaven in the so vilified Southern States—learning the very best
lessons for a semi-barbarous people—lessons of self-control, of obedience, of
perseverance, of adaptation of means to ends; learning, above all, where
their weakness lies, and how they may acquire strength for the battle of
life. These considerations satisfy me with their condition, and assure me
that it is the best relation they can, for the present, be made to occupy.”

Reviewing the work of the white churches, Frederick Douglass had this to say:
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I
recognize the widest possible difference—so wide that to receive the one as
good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt,
and wicked. To be the friend of the one is of necessity to be the enemy of
the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ;
I therefore hate the corrupt, slave-holding, women-whipping, cradle-
plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can
see no reason but the most deceitful one for calling the religion of this
land Christianity…”

[Andrew Anglin]

"This is hard to talk about but, when I was just a child, my parents,

without my consent, took away my God given freedom to die of polio."
Many southerners are still angry that a Yankee took away their God given
right to own slaves



The Bible, writen most recently by a British King but originally a book of
fables by ignorant bronze age sand niggers and jews, clearly justified lazy
white southerners of the USA to own blacks. The South lost the war over
slavery because they were mostly lazy, slow talking, slow thinking rubes who
couldn't cut it if not for the black man doing their labor.


Jesus was as white as OJ Simpson.


How Christian Slaveholders Used the Bible to Justify Slavery


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:
Bomb Targeting Mosque in Kabul Kills a ‘Number of Civilians’

“And the sons of Noah that went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and
Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. These are the three sons of Noah:
and of them was the whole world overspread. And Noah began to be an
husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was
drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan,
saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem
and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went
backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were
backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness. And Noah awoke from his
wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be
Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said,
Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall
enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be
his servant. And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.”

Despite some problems with this story—What was so terrible about seeing Noah
drunk? Why curse Canaan rather than Ham? How long was the servitude to last?
Surely Ham would have been the same color as his brothers?—it eventually
became the foundational text for those who wanted to justify slavery on
Biblical grounds. In its boiled-down, popular version, known as “The Curse of
Ham,” Canaan was dropped from the story, Ham was made black, and his
descendants were made Africans.

The other favorite came from the Apostle Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians, VI,
5-7: “Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the
flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
not with eye-service, as men-pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing
the will of God from the heart; with good will doing service, as to the Lord,
and not to men: knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same
shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.” (Paul repeated
himself, almost word for word, in the third chapter of his Epistle to the
Colossians.)
Paid Partner Content
Four Ally interns found a way to teach financial education to America’s
youth.
By Ally Financial

The rest of the Old Testament was often mined by pro-slavery polemicists for
examples proving that slavery was common among the Israelites. 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 master, was often quoted. It was also
generally accepted that the Latin word servus, usually translated as servant,
really meant slave.

***

Even apparent abuses, when looked at in the right light, worked out for the
best, in the words of Bishop William Meade of Virginia. Suppose, for example,
that you have been punished for something you did not do, “is it not possible
you may have done some other bad thing which was never discovered and that
Almighty God, who saw you doing it, would not let you escape without
punishment one time or another? And ought you not in such a case to give
glory to Him, and be thankful that He would rather punish you in this life
for your wickedness than destroy your souls for it in the next life? But
suppose that even this was not the case—a case hardly to be imagined—and that
you have by no means, known or unknown, deserved the correction you suffered;
there is this great comfort in it, that if you bear it patiently, and leave
your cause in the hands of God, He will reward you for it in heaven, and the
punishment you suffer unjustly here shall turn to your exceeding great glory
hereafter.”

Bishop Stephen Elliott, of Georgia, also knew how to look on the bright side.
Critics of slavery should “consider whether, by their interference with this
institution, they may not be checking and impeding a work which is manifestly
Providential. For nearly a hundred years the English and American Churches
have been striving to civilize and Christianize Western Africa, and with what
result? Around Sierra Leone, and in the neighborhood of Cape Palmas, a few
natives have been made Christians, and some nations have been partially
civilized; but what a small number in comparison with the thousands, nay, I
may say millions, who have learned the way to Heaven and who have been made
to know their Savior through the means of African slavery! At this very
moment there are from three to four millions of Africans, educating for earth
and for Heaven in the so vilified Southern States—learning the very best
lessons for a semi-barbarous people—lessons of self-control, of obedience, of
perseverance, of adaptation of means to ends; learning, above all, where
their weakness lies, and how they may acquire strength for the battle of
life. These considerations satisfy me with their condition, and assure me
that it is the best relation they can, for the present, be made to occupy.”

Reviewing the work of the white churches, Frederick Douglass had this to say:
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I
recognize the widest possible difference—so wide that to receive the one as
good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt,
and wicked. To be the friend of the one is of necessity to be the enemy of
the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ;
I therefore hate the corrupt, slave-holding, women-whipping, cradle-
plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can
see no reason but the most deceitful one for calling the religion of this
land Christianity…”

[Andrew Anglin]

"This is hard to talk about but, when I was just a child, my parents,

without my consent, took away my God given freedom to die of polio."
Many southerners are still angry that a Yankee took away their God given
right to own slaves



The Bible, writen most recently by a British King but originally a book of
fables by ignorant bronze age sand niggers and jews, clearly justified lazy
white southerners of the USA to own blacks. The South lost the war over
slavery because they were mostly lazy, slow talking, slow thinking rubes who
couldn't cut it if not for the black man doing their labor.


Jesus was as white as OJ Simpson.


How Christian Slaveholders Used the Bible to Justify Slavery


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:
Bomb Targeting Mosque in Kabul Kills a ‘Number of Civilians’

“And the sons of Noah that went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and
Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. These are the three sons of Noah:
and of them was the whole world overspread. And Noah began to be an
husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was
drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan,
saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem
and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went
backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were
backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness. And Noah awoke from his
wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be
Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said,
Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall
enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be
his servant. And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.”

Despite some problems with this story—What was so terrible about seeing Noah
drunk? Why curse Canaan rather than Ham? How long was the servitude to last?
Surely Ham would have been the same color as his brothers?—it eventually
became the foundational text for those who wanted to justify slavery on
Biblical grounds. In its boiled-down, popular version, known as “The Curse of
Ham,” Canaan was dropped from the story, Ham was made black, and his
descendants were made Africans.

The other favorite came from the Apostle Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians, VI,
5-7: “Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the
flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
not with eye-service, as men-pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing
the will of God from the heart; with good will doing service, as to the Lord,
and not to men: knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same
shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.” (Paul repeated
himself, almost word for word, in the third chapter of his Epistle to the
Colossians.)
Paid Partner Content
Four Ally interns found a way to teach financial education to America’s
youth.
By Ally Financial

The rest of the Old Testament was often mined by pro-slavery polemicists for
examples proving that slavery was common among the Israelites. 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 master, was often quoted. It was also
generally accepted that the Latin word servus, usually translated as servant,
really meant slave.

***

Even apparent abuses, when looked at in the right light, worked out for the
best, in the words of Bishop William Meade of Virginia. Suppose, for example,
that you have been punished for something you did not do, “is it not possible
you may have done some other bad thing which was never discovered and that
Almighty God, who saw you doing it, would not let you escape without
punishment one time or another? And ought you not in such a case to give
glory to Him, and be thankful that He would rather punish you in this life
for your wickedness than destroy your souls for it in the next life? But
suppose that even this was not the case—a case hardly to be imagined—and that
you have by no means, known or unknown, deserved the correction you suffered;
there is this great comfort in it, that if you bear it patiently, and leave
your cause in the hands of God, He will reward you for it in heaven, and the
punishment you suffer unjustly here shall turn to your exceeding great glory
hereafter.”

Bishop Stephen Elliott, of Georgia, also knew how to look on the bright side.
Critics of slavery should “consider whether, by their interference with this
institution, they may not be checking and impeding a work which is manifestly
Providential. For nearly a hundred years the English and American Churches
have been striving to civilize and Christianize Western Africa, and with what
result? Around Sierra Leone, and in the neighborhood of Cape Palmas, a few
natives have been made Christians, and some nations have been partially
civilized; but what a small number in comparison with the thousands, nay, I
may say millions, who have learned the way to Heaven and who have been made
to know their Savior through the means of African slavery! At this very
moment there are from three to four millions of Africans, educating for earth
and for Heaven in the so vilified Southern States—learning the very best
lessons for a semi-barbarous people—lessons of self-control, of obedience, of
perseverance, of adaptation of means to ends; learning, above all, where
their weakness lies, and how they may acquire strength for the battle of
life. These considerations satisfy me with their condition, and assure me
that it is the best relation they can, for the present, be made to occupy.”

Reviewing the work of the white churches, Frederick Douglass had this to say:
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I
recognize the widest possible difference—so wide that to receive the one as
good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt,
and wicked. To be the friend of the one is of necessity to be the enemy of
the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ;
I therefore hate the corrupt, slave-holding, women-whipping, cradle-
plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can
see no reason but the most deceitful one for calling the religion of this
land Christianity…”

[Andrew Anglin]

"This is hard to talk about but, when I was just a child, my parents,

without my consent, took away my God given freedom to die of polio."
Many southerners are still angry that a Yankee took away their God given
right to own slaves



The Bible, writen most recently by a British King but originally a book of
fables by ignorant bronze age sand niggers and jews, clearly justified lazy
white southerners of the USA to own blacks. The South lost the war over
slavery because they were mostly lazy, slow talking, slow thinking rubes who
couldn't cut it if not for the black man doing their labor.


Jesus was as white as OJ Simpson.


How Christian Slaveholders Used the Bible to Justify Slavery


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:
Bomb Targeting Mosque in Kabul Kills a ‘Number of Civilians’

“And the sons of Noah that went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and
Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. These are the three sons of Noah:
and of them was the whole world overspread. And Noah began to be an
husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was
drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan,
saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem
and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went
backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were
backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness. And Noah awoke from his
wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be
Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said,
Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall
enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be
his servant. And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.”

Despite some problems with this story—What was so terrible about seeing Noah
drunk? Why curse Canaan rather than Ham? How long was the servitude to last?
Surely Ham would have been the same color as his brothers?—it eventually
became the foundational text for those who wanted to justify slavery on
Biblical grounds. In its boiled-down, popular version, known as “The Curse of
Ham,” Canaan was dropped from the story, Ham was made black, and his
descendants were made Africans.

The other favorite came from the Apostle Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians, VI,
5-7: “Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the
flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
not with eye-service, as men-pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing
the will of God from the heart; with good will doing service, as to the Lord,
and not to men: knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same
shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.” (Paul repeated
himself, almost word for word, in the third chapter of his Epistle to the
Colossians.)
Paid Partner Content
Four Ally interns found a way to teach financial education to America’s
youth.
By Ally Financial

The rest of the Old Testament was often mined by pro-slavery polemicists for
examples proving that slavery was common among the Israelites. 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 master, was often quoted. It was also
generally accepted that the Latin word servus, usually translated as servant,
really meant slave.

***

Even apparent abuses, when looked at in the right light, worked out for the
best, in the words of Bishop William Meade of Virginia. Suppose, for example,
that you have been punished for something you did not do, “is it not possible
you may have done some other bad thing which was never discovered and that
Almighty God, who saw you doing it, would not let you escape without
punishment one time or another? And ought you not in such a case to give
glory to Him, and be thankful that He would rather punish you in this life
for your wickedness than destroy your souls for it in the next life? But
suppose that even this was not the case—a case hardly to be imagined—and that
you have by no means, known or unknown, deserved the correction you suffered;
there is this great comfort in it, that if you bear it patiently, and leave
your cause in the hands of God, He will reward you for it in heaven, and the
punishment you suffer unjustly here shall turn to your exceeding great glory
hereafter.”

Bishop Stephen Elliott, of Georgia, also knew how to look on the bright side.
Critics of slavery should “consider whether, by their interference with this
institution, they may not be checking and impeding a work which is manifestly
Providential. For nearly a hundred years the English and American Churches
have been striving to civilize and Christianize Western Africa, and with what
result? Around Sierra Leone, and in the neighborhood of Cape Palmas, a few
natives have been made Christians, and some nations have been partially
civilized; but what a small number in comparison with the thousands, nay, I
may say millions, who have learned the way to Heaven and who have been made
to know their Savior through the means of African slavery! At this very
moment there are from three to four millions of Africans, educating for earth
and for Heaven in the so vilified Southern States—learning the very best
lessons for a semi-barbarous people—lessons of self-control, of obedience, of
perseverance, of adaptation of means to ends; learning, above all, where
their weakness lies, and how they may acquire strength for the battle of
life. These considerations satisfy me with their condition, and assure me
that it is the best relation they can, for the present, be made to occupy.”

Reviewing the work of the white churches, Frederick Douglass had this to say:
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I
recognize the widest possible difference—so wide that to receive the one as
good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt,
and wicked. To be the friend of the one is of necessity to be the enemy of
the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ;
I therefore hate the corrupt, slave-holding, women-whipping, cradle-
plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can
see no reason but the most deceitful one for calling the religion of this
land Christianity…”

[Andrew Anglin]

"This is hard to talk about but, when I was just a child, my parents,

without my consent, took away my God given freedom to die of polio."
Many southerners are still angry that a Yankee took away their God given
right to own slaves



The Bible, writen most recently by a British King but originally a book of
fables by ignorant bronze age sand niggers and jews, clearly justified lazy
white southerners of the USA to own blacks. The South lost the war over
slavery because they were mostly lazy, slow talking, slow thinking rubes who
couldn't cut it if not for the black man doing their labor.


Jesus was as white as OJ Simpson.


How Christian Slaveholders Used the Bible to Justify Slavery


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:
Bomb Targeting Mosque in Kabul Kills a ‘Number of Civilians’

“And the sons of Noah that went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and
Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. These are the three sons of Noah:
and of them was the whole world overspread. And Noah began to be an
husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was
drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan,
saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem
and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went
backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were
backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness. And Noah awoke from his
wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be
Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said,
Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall
enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be
his servant. And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.”

Despite some problems with this story—What was so terrible about seeing Noah
drunk? Why curse Canaan rather than Ham? How long was the servitude to last?
Surely Ham would have been the same color as his brothers?—it eventually
became the foundational text for those who wanted to justify slavery on
Biblical grounds. In its boiled-down, popular version, known as “The Curse of
Ham,” Canaan was dropped from the story, Ham was made black, and his
descendants were made Africans.

The other favorite came from the Apostle Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians, VI,
5-7: “Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the
flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
not with eye-service, as men-pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing
the will of God from the heart; with good will doing service, as to the Lord,
and not to men: knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same
shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.” (Paul repeated
himself, almost word for word, in the third chapter of his Epistle to the
Colossians.)
Paid Partner Content
Four Ally interns found a way to teach financial education to America’s
youth.
By Ally Financial

The rest of the Old Testament was often mined by pro-slavery polemicists for
examples proving that slavery was common among the Israelites. 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 master, was often quoted. It was also
generally accepted that the Latin word servus, usually translated as servant,
really meant slave.

***

Even apparent abuses, when looked at in the right light, worked out for the
best, in the words of Bishop William Meade of Virginia. Suppose, for example,
that you have been punished for something you did not do, “is it not possible
you may have done some other bad thing which was never discovered and that
Almighty God, who saw you doing it, would not let you escape without
punishment one time or another? And ought you not in such a case to give
glory to Him, and be thankful that He would rather punish you in this life
for your wickedness than destroy your souls for it in the next life? But
suppose that even this was not the case—a case hardly to be imagined—and that
you have by no means, known or unknown, deserved the correction you suffered;
there is this great comfort in it, that if you bear it patiently, and leave
your cause in the hands of God, He will reward you for it in heaven, and the
punishment you suffer unjustly here shall turn to your exceeding great glory
hereafter.”

Bishop Stephen Elliott, of Georgia, also knew how to look on the bright side.
Critics of slavery should “consider whether, by their interference with this
institution, they may not be checking and impeding a work which is manifestly
Providential. For nearly a hundred years the English and American Churches
have been striving to civilize and Christianize Western Africa, and with what
result? Around Sierra Leone, and in the neighborhood of Cape Palmas, a few
natives have been made Christians, and some nations have been partially
civilized; but what a small number in comparison with the thousands, nay, I
may say millions, who have learned the way to Heaven and who have been made
to know their Savior through the means of African slavery! At this very
moment there are from three to four millions of Africans, educating for earth
and for Heaven in the so vilified Southern States—learning the very best
lessons for a semi-barbarous people—lessons of self-control, of obedience, of
perseverance, of adaptation of means to ends; learning, above all, where
their weakness lies, and how they may acquire strength for the battle of
life. These considerations satisfy me with their condition, and assure me
that it is the best relation they can, for the present, be made to occupy.”

Reviewing the work of the white churches, Frederick Douglass had this to say:
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I
recognize the widest possible difference—so wide that to receive the one as
good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt,
and wicked. To be the friend of the one is of necessity to be the enemy of
the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ;
I therefore hate the corrupt, slave-holding, women-whipping, cradle-
plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can
see no reason but the most deceitful one for calling the religion of this
land Christianity…”

[Andrew Anglin]

"This is hard to talk about but, when I was just a child, my parents,

without my consent, took away my God given freedom to die of polio."
Many southerners are still angry that a Yankee took away their God given
right to own slaves



The Bible, writen most recently by a British King but originally a book of
fables by ignorant bronze age sand niggers and jews, clearly justified lazy
white southerners of the USA to own blacks. The South lost the war over
slavery because they were mostly lazy, slow talking, slow thinking rubes who
couldn't cut it if not for the black man doing their labor.


Jesus was as white as OJ Simpson.


How Christian Slaveholders Used the Bible to Justify Slavery


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:
Bomb Targeting Mosque in Kabul Kills a ‘Number of Civilians’

“And the sons of Noah that went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and
Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. These are the three sons of Noah:
and of them was the whole world overspread. And Noah began to be an
husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was
drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan,
saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem
and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went
backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were
backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness. And Noah awoke from his
wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be
Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said,
Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall
enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be
his servant. And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.”

Despite some problems with this story—What was so terrible about seeing Noah
drunk? Why curse Canaan rather than Ham? How long was the servitude to last?
Surely Ham would have been the same color as his brothers?—it eventually
became the foundational text for those who wanted to justify slavery on
Biblical grounds. In its boiled-down, popular version, known as “The Curse of
Ham,” Canaan was dropped from the story, Ham was made black, and his
descendants were made Africans.

The other favorite came from the Apostle Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians, VI,
5-7: “Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the
flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
not with eye-service, as men-pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing
the will of God from the heart; with good will doing service, as to the Lord,
and not to men: knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same
shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.” (Paul repeated
himself, almost word for word, in the third chapter of his Epistle to the
Colossians.)
Paid Partner Content
Four Ally interns found a way to teach financial education to America’s
youth.
By Ally Financial

The rest of the Old Testament was often mined by pro-slavery polemicists for
examples proving that slavery was common among the Israelites. 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 master, was often quoted. It was also
generally accepted that the Latin word servus, usually translated as servant,
really meant slave.

***

Even apparent abuses, when looked at in the right light, worked out for the
best, in the words of Bishop William Meade of Virginia. Suppose, for example,
that you have been punished for something you did not do, “is it not possible
you may have done some other bad thing which was never discovered and that
Almighty God, who saw you doing it, would not let you escape without
punishment one time or another? And ought you not in such a case to give
glory to Him, and be thankful that He would rather punish you in this life
for your wickedness than destroy your souls for it in the next life? But
suppose that even this was not the case—a case hardly to be imagined—and that
you have by no means, known or unknown, deserved the correction you suffered;
there is this great comfort in it, that if you bear it patiently, and leave
your cause in the hands of God, He will reward you for it in heaven, and the
punishment you suffer unjustly here shall turn to your exceeding great glory
hereafter.”

Bishop Stephen Elliott, of Georgia, also knew how to look on the bright side.
Critics of slavery should “consider whether, by their interference with this
institution, they may not be checking and impeding a work which is manifestly
Providential. For nearly a hundred years the English and American Churches
have been striving to civilize and Christianize Western Africa, and with what
result? Around Sierra Leone, and in the neighborhood of Cape Palmas, a few
natives have been made Christians, and some nations have been partially
civilized; but what a small number in comparison with the thousands, nay, I
may say millions, who have learned the way to Heaven and who have been made
to know their Savior through the means of African slavery! At this very
moment there are from three to four millions of Africans, educating for earth
and for Heaven in the so vilified Southern States—learning the very best
lessons for a semi-barbarous people—lessons of self-control, of obedience, of
perseverance, of adaptation of means to ends; learning, above all, where
their weakness lies, and how they may acquire strength for the battle of
life. These considerations satisfy me with their condition, and assure me
that it is the best relation they can, for the present, be made to occupy.”

Reviewing the work of the white churches, Frederick Douglass had this to say:
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I
recognize the widest possible difference—so wide that to receive the one as
good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt,
and wicked. To be the friend of the one is of necessity to be the enemy of
the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ;
I therefore hate the corrupt, slave-holding, women-whipping, cradle-
plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can
see no reason but the most deceitful one for calling the religion of this
land Christianity…”

[Andrew Anglin]

"This is hard to talk about but, when I was just a child, my parents,

without my consent, took away my God given freedom to die of polio."
Many southerners are still angry that a Yankee took away their God given
right to own slaves



The Bible, writen most recently by a British King but originally a book of
fables by ignorant bronze age sand niggers and jews, clearly justified lazy
white southerners of the USA to own blacks. The South lost the war over
slavery because they were mostly lazy, slow talking, slow thinking rubes who
couldn't cut it if not for the black man doing their labor.


Jesus was as white as OJ Simpson.


How Christian Slaveholders Used the Bible to Justify Slavery


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:
Bomb Targeting Mosque in Kabul Kills a ‘Number of Civilians’

“And the sons of Noah that went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and
Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. These are the three sons of Noah:
and of them was the whole world overspread. And Noah began to be an
husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was
drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan,
saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem
and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went
backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were
backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness. And Noah awoke from his
wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be
Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said,
Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall
enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be
his servant. And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.”

Despite some problems with this story—What was so terrible about seeing Noah
drunk? Why curse Canaan rather than Ham? How long was the servitude to last?
Surely Ham would have been the same color as his brothers?—it eventually
became the foundational text for those who wanted to justify slavery on
Biblical grounds. In its boiled-down, popular version, known as “The Curse of
Ham,” Canaan was dropped from the story, Ham was made black, and his
descendants were made Africans.

The other favorite came from the Apostle Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians, VI,
5-7: “Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the
flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
not with eye-service, as men-pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing
the will of God from the heart; with good will doing service, as to the Lord,
and not to men: knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same
shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.” (Paul repeated
himself, almost word for word, in the third chapter of his Epistle to the
Colossians.)
Paid Partner Content
Four Ally interns found a way to teach financial education to America’s
youth.
By Ally Financial

The rest of the Old Testament was often mined by pro-slavery polemicists for
examples proving that slavery was common among the Israelites. 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 master, was often quoted. It was also
generally accepted that the Latin word servus, usually translated as servant,
really meant slave.

***

Even apparent abuses, when looked at in the right light, worked out for the
best, in the words of Bishop William Meade of Virginia. Suppose, for example,
that you have been punished for something you did not do, “is it not possible
you may have done some other bad thing which was never discovered and that
Almighty God, who saw you doing it, would not let you escape without
punishment one time or another? And ought you not in such a case to give
glory to Him, and be thankful that He would rather punish you in this life
for your wickedness than destroy your souls for it in the next life? But
suppose that even this was not the case—a case hardly to be imagined—and that
you have by no means, known or unknown, deserved the correction you suffered;
there is this great comfort in it, that if you bear it patiently, and leave
your cause in the hands of God, He will reward you for it in heaven, and the
punishment you suffer unjustly here shall turn to your exceeding great glory
hereafter.”

Bishop Stephen Elliott, of Georgia, also knew how to look on the bright side.
Critics of slavery should “consider whether, by their interference with this
institution, they may not be checking and impeding a work which is manifestly
Providential. For nearly a hundred years the English and American Churches
have been striving to civilize and Christianize Western Africa, and with what
result? Around Sierra Leone, and in the neighborhood of Cape Palmas, a few
natives have been made Christians, and some nations have been partially
civilized; but what a small number in comparison with the thousands, nay, I
may say millions, who have learned the way to Heaven and who have been made
to know their Savior through the means of African slavery! At this very
moment there are from three to four millions of Africans, educating for earth
and for Heaven in the so vilified Southern States—learning the very best
lessons for a semi-barbarous people—lessons of self-control, of obedience, of
perseverance, of adaptation of means to ends; learning, above all, where
their weakness lies, and how they may acquire strength for the battle of
life. These considerations satisfy me with their condition, and assure me
that it is the best relation they can, for the present, be made to occupy.”

Reviewing the work of the white churches, Frederick Douglass had this to say:
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I
recognize the widest possible difference—so wide that to receive the one as
good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt,
and wicked. To be the friend of the one is of necessity to be the enemy of
the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ;
I therefore hate the corrupt, slave-holding, women-whipping, cradle-
plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can
see no reason but the most deceitful one for calling the religion of this
land Christianity…”

[Andrew Anglin]

"This is hard to talk about but, when I was just a child, my parents,

without my consent, took away my God given freedom to die of polio."
Many southerners are still angry that a Yankee took away their God given
right to own slaves



The Bible, writen most recently by a British King but originally a book of
fables by ignorant bronze age sand niggers and jews, clearly justified lazy
white southerners of the USA to own blacks. The South lost the war over
slavery because they were mostly lazy, slow talking, slow thinking rubes who
couldn't cut it if not for the black man doing their labor.


Jesus was as white as OJ Simpson.


How Christian Slaveholders Used the Bible to Justify Slavery


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:
Bomb Targeting Mosque in Kabul Kills a ‘Number of Civilians’

“And the sons of Noah that went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and
Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. These are the three sons of Noah:
and of them was the whole world overspread. And Noah began to be an
husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was
drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan,
saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem
and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went
backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were
backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness. And Noah awoke from his
wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be
Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said,
Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall
enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be
his servant. And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.”

Despite some problems with this story—What was so terrible about seeing Noah
drunk? Why curse Canaan rather than Ham? How long was the servitude to last?
Surely Ham would have been the same color as his brothers?—it eventually
became the foundational text for those who wanted to justify slavery on
Biblical grounds. In its boiled-down, popular version, known as “The Curse of
Ham,” Canaan was dropped from the story, Ham was made black, and his
descendants were made Africans.

The other favorite came from the Apostle Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians, VI,
5-7: “Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the
flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
not with eye-service, as men-pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing
the will of God from the heart; with good will doing service, as to the Lord,
and not to men: knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same
shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.” (Paul repeated
himself, almost word for word, in the third chapter of his Epistle to the
Colossians.)
Paid Partner Content
Four Ally interns found a way to teach financial education to America’s
youth.
By Ally Financial

The rest of the Old Testament was often mined by pro-slavery polemicists for
examples proving that slavery was common among the Israelites. 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 master, was often quoted. It was also
generally accepted that the Latin word servus, usually translated as servant,
really meant slave.

***

Even apparent abuses, when looked at in the right light, worked out for the
best, in the words of Bishop William Meade of Virginia. Suppose, for example,
that you have been punished for something you did not do, “is it not possible
you may have done some other bad thing which was never discovered and that
Almighty God, who saw you doing it, would not let you escape without
punishment one time or another? And ought you not in such a case to give
glory to Him, and be thankful that He would rather punish you in this life
for your wickedness than destroy your souls for it in the next life? But
suppose that even this was not the case—a case hardly to be imagined—and that
you have by no means, known or unknown, deserved the correction you suffered;
there is this great comfort in it, that if you bear it patiently, and leave
your cause in the hands of God, He will reward you for it in heaven, and the
punishment you suffer unjustly here shall turn to your exceeding great glory
hereafter.”

Bishop Stephen Elliott, of Georgia, also knew how to look on the bright side.
Critics of slavery should “consider whether, by their interference with this
institution, they may not be checking and impeding a work which is manifestly
Providential. For nearly a hundred years the English and American Churches
have been striving to civilize and Christianize Western Africa, and with what
result? Around Sierra Leone, and in the neighborhood of Cape Palmas, a few
natives have been made Christians, and some nations have been partially
civilized; but what a small number in comparison with the thousands, nay, I
may say millions, who have learned the way to Heaven and who have been made
to know their Savior through the means of African slavery! At this very
moment there are from three to four millions of Africans, educating for earth
and for Heaven in the so vilified Southern States—learning the very best
lessons for a semi-barbarous people—lessons of self-control, of obedience, of
perseverance, of adaptation of means to ends; learning, above all, where
their weakness lies, and how they may acquire strength for the battle of
life. These considerations satisfy me with their condition, and assure me
that it is the best relation they can, for the present, be made to occupy.”

Reviewing the work of the white churches, Frederick Douglass had this to say:
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I
recognize the widest possible difference—so wide that to receive the one as
good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt,
and wicked. To be the friend of the one is of necessity to be the enemy of
the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ;
I therefore hate the corrupt, slave-holding, women-whipping, cradle-
plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can
see no reason but the most deceitful one for calling the religion of this
land Christianity…”

[Andrew Anglin]

"This is hard to talk about but, when I was just a child, my parents,

without my consent, took away my God given freedom to die of polio."
Many southerners are still angry that a Yankee took away their God given
right to own slaves



The Bible, writen most recently by a British King but originally a book of
fables by ignorant bronze age sand niggers and jews, clearly justified lazy
white southerners of the USA to own blacks. The South lost the war over
slavery because they were mostly lazy, slow talking, slow thinking rubes who
couldn't cut it if not for the black man doing their labor.


Jesus was as white as OJ Simpson.


How Christian Slaveholders Used the Bible to Justify Slavery


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:
Bomb Targeting Mosque in Kabul Kills a ‘Number of Civilians’

“And the sons of Noah that went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and
Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. These are the three sons of Noah:
and of them was the whole world overspread. And Noah began to be an
husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was
drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan,
saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem
and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went
backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were
backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness. And Noah awoke from his
wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be
Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said,
Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall
enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be
his servant. And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.”

Despite some problems with this story—What was so terrible about seeing Noah
drunk? Why curse Canaan rather than Ham? How long was the servitude to last?
Surely Ham would have been the same color as his brothers?—it eventually
became the foundational text for those who wanted to justify slavery on
Biblical grounds. In its boiled-down, popular version, known as “The Curse of
Ham,” Canaan was dropped from the story, Ham was made black, and his
descendants were made Africans.

The other favorite came from the Apostle Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians, VI,
5-7: “Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the
flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
not with eye-service, as men-pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing
the will of God from the heart; with good will doing service, as to the Lord,
and not to men: knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same
shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.” (Paul repeated
himself, almost word for word, in the third chapter of his Epistle to the
Colossians.)
Paid Partner Content
Four Ally interns found a way to teach financial education to America’s
youth.
By Ally Financial

The rest of the Old Testament was often mined by pro-slavery polemicists for
examples proving that slavery was common among the Israelites. 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 master, was often quoted. It was also
generally accepted that the Latin word servus, usually translated as servant,
really meant slave.

***

Even apparent abuses, when looked at in the right light, worked out for the
best, in the words of Bishop William Meade of Virginia. Suppose, for example,
that you have been punished for something you did not do, “is it not possible
you may have done some other bad thing which was never discovered and that
Almighty God, who saw you doing it, would not let you escape without
punishment one time or another? And ought you not in such a case to give
glory to Him, and be thankful that He would rather punish you in this life
for your wickedness than destroy your souls for it in the next life? But
suppose that even this was not the case—a case hardly to be imagined—and that
you have by no means, known or unknown, deserved the correction you suffered;
there is this great comfort in it, that if you bear it patiently, and leave
your cause in the hands of God, He will reward you for it in heaven, and the
punishment you suffer unjustly here shall turn to your exceeding great glory
hereafter.”

Bishop Stephen Elliott, of Georgia, also knew how to look on the bright side.
Critics of slavery should “consider whether, by their interference with this
institution, they may not be checking and impeding a work which is manifestly
Providential. For nearly a hundred years the English and American Churches
have been striving to civilize and Christianize Western Africa, and with what
result? Around Sierra Leone, and in the neighborhood of Cape Palmas, a few
natives have been made Christians, and some nations have been partially
civilized; but what a small number in comparison with the thousands, nay, I
may say millions, who have learned the way to Heaven and who have been made
to know their Savior through the means of African slavery! At this very
moment there are from three to four millions of Africans, educating for earth
and for Heaven in the so vilified Southern States—learning the very best
lessons for a semi-barbarous people—lessons of self-control, of obedience, of
perseverance, of adaptation of means to ends; learning, above all, where
their weakness lies, and how they may acquire strength for the battle of
life. These considerations satisfy me with their condition, and assure me
that it is the best relation they can, for the present, be made to occupy.”

Reviewing the work of the white churches, Frederick Douglass had this to say:
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I
recognize the widest possible difference—so wide that to receive the one as
good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt,
and wicked. To be the friend of the one is of necessity to be the enemy of
the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ;
I therefore hate the corrupt, slave-holding, women-whipping, cradle-
plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can
see no reason but the most deceitful one for calling the religion of this
land Christianity…”