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No Father or Doctor of the Church was an unqualified abolitionist. No pope or council ever made a sweeping condemnation of slavery as such. Church leaders sought to alleviate the evils of slavery and repeatedly denounced the mass enslavement of conquered populations and the slave trade, thereby undermining slavery at its sources. [32]
John Gregg Fee (September 9, 1816 – January 11, 1901) was an abolitionist, minister and educator, the founder of the town of Berea, Kentucky, The Church of Christ, Union in Berea (1853), Berea College (1855), the first in the U.S. South with interracial and coeducational admissions, and late in his life another congregation that would become First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) 2 ...
Pressure from US Methodist churches in this period prevented some general condemnations of slavery by the worldwide church. Following Emancipation, African-Americans believed that true freedom was to be found through the communal and nurturing aspects of the Church. The Methodist Church was at the forefront of freed-slave agency in the South.
Steenhart subsequently gifted him to a fellow slave trader, Jacobus van Goch, who was residing in Elmina. [4] Capitein later wrote that he regarded his relationship with van Goch as that of a father and son. [5] In 1728, van Goch returned to the Dutch Republic after retiring from his service in the Dutch West India Company (WIC). [1]
In supremo apostolatus, an apostolic letter or papal bull, was issued by Pope Gregory XVI regarding the institution of slavery. Issued on December 3, 1839, as a result of a broad consultation among the College of Cardinals, the bull resoundingly denounced both the slave trade and the continuance of the institution of slavery. [17] [18] [19] [20]
In the South, church leaders and Christians began to defend slavery by using the Bible and church doctrine. [4] This involved making use of biblical, charitable, evangelistic, social, and political rationalizations, such as the fact that Biblical figures owned slaves and the argument that slavery allowed African Americans to become Christians. [13]
Black Catholicism or African-American Catholicism comprises the African-American people, beliefs, and practices in the Catholic Church.. There are around three million Black Catholics in the United States, making up 6% of the total population of African Americans, who are mostly Protestant, and 4% of American Catholics.
Basil, indeed, viewed slavery as a result of the Fall, a principle that was shared by Augustine, Theodoret, and many other Fathers. [50] [51] Sometimes slavery is a boon to the enslaved person, Basil maintained (in Moral Rules 75 he recommended, that Christian slaves work harder than non-Christian slaves). This view is opposed to Gregory of ...