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14 Φεβ 2022 · 1. Slavery was contrary to the will of God. 2. The system of slavery encouraged hatred rather than love whereas Christianity urges its followers to ‘’love’’ thy neighbour as thyself. 3. Christianity teaches that all men are equal in the sight of God but slaves were subjugated to the will of their master. 4.
The British proslavery movement opposed the abolition of the slave trade – from when the campaign for its abolition first began in 1783 until 1807, when it was abolished – and then opposed the abolition of slavery itself in British colonies until that was legislated in 1833.
Of course, pro-slavery Christians emphasised that neither Christ nor the apostles demanded the abolition of slavery. But abolitionists responded that slavery was tolerated as an evil by the early church, just like ‘the sanguinary despotism of Nero’ and ‘the sports of gladiators’, neither of which was expressly condemned in the New ...
8 Οκτ 2024 · Abolitionists argued that slavery was a social and moral evil that harmed not only the slaves but their owners and society as a whole. Slaves were brutalized and lived in fear and forced...
23 Φεβ 2018 · The rest of the Old Testament was often mined by pro-slavery polemicists for examples proving that slavery was common among the Israelites.
27 Ιουν 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. From an anti-abolitionist, pro-slavery cartoon, 1800. via Library of Congress.
Challenging the institution of slavery threatened to undermine all hierarchies, including familial ones. Because they understood slavery as sanctioned by God, they regarded abolitionists as insulting the divine word and perverting, betraying, and subverting the divine order.