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The Bible uses the Hebrew term eved and the Greek term doulos (δοῦλος) to refer to slaves. Eved has a much wider meaning than the English term slave, and in many circumstances it is more accurately translated into English as servant or hired worker. [6]
11th-century manuscript of the Hebrew Bible with Targum, Exodus 12:25–31 The Franks Casket is an 8th-century Anglo-Saxon whalebone casket, the back of which depicts the enslavement of the Jewish people at the lower right. The Bible contains many references to slavery, which was a common practice in antiquity.
Abolitionist writings, such as "A Condensed Anti-Slavery Bible Argument" (1845) by George Bourne, [23] and "God Against Slavery" (1857) by George B. Cheever, [24] used the Bible, logic and reason extensively in contending against the institution of slavery, and in particular the chattel form of it as seen in the South. In Cheever's speech ...
"From my upbringing and the Bible I learned people should stand up for rights just as the children of Israel stood up to the Pharaoh." "To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the ...
On Monday, May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional in the Brown v. Board of Education decision. [7] Rev. Carey Daniel, a proponent of segregation and pastor of First Baptist Church of West Dallas, Texas, wrote a response to the decision and delivered it as a sermon on Sunday, May 23,
Past church leaders' views on interracial marriages were reflected by previous laws in Utah, where its members held a notable amount of political influence.In 1852, the Act in Relation to Service which allowed the enslavement of Black people in Utah Territory was passed, and it also banned sexual intercourse between a White person and "any of the African race."
This moral downturn began six decades ago, Cruz told his followers, when the U.S. Supreme Court banned mandatory prayer and Bible readings from schools. And now, he said, the solution was to ...
Joseph Smith's views on Black people varied during his lifetime. As founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, he included Black people in many ordinances and priesthood ordinations, but held multi-faceted views on racial segregation, the curses of Cain and Ham, and shifted his views on slavery several times, eventually coming to take an anti-slavery stance later in his life.