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  2. Select Parts of the Holy Bible for the use of the Negro ...

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    And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. The Select Parts of the Holy Bible for the use of the Negro Slaves in the British West-India Islands , sometimes referred to as the slave bible , is an abbreviated version of the Bible specifically made for teaching a pro-slavery version of Christianity to enslaved people in the British ...

  3. Christian views on slavery - Wikipedia

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    Christian views on slavery are varied regionally, historically and spiritually. Slavery in various forms has been a part of the social environment for much of Christianity's history, spanning well over eighteen centuries. Saint Augustine described slavery as being against God's intention and resulting from sin. [1]

  4. The Bible and slavery - Wikipedia

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    Open slave systems allow for incorporation of freed slaves into society after manumission, while closed systems manumitted slaves still lack social agency or social integration. [110] Roman slavery exhibited characteristics of both, open and closed, systems which further complicates the letter from Paul to Philemon regarding the slave Onesimus.

  5. Catholic Church and slavery - Wikipedia

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    The Pastoral Rule of Gregory I “The Great”, reigned 590-604, directed that slaves should behave humbly as they are only slaves but that Masters, like their slaves, were also slaves of God. [140] He also commended the act of manumission for those who had been condemned jus gentium to slavery.

  6. Slavery and religion - Wikipedia

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    During the antebellum period, slave preachers — enslaved or formerly enslaved evangelists — became instrumental in shaping slave Christianity. They preached a gospel that was radically different from the gospel that was preached by white preachers, who often used Christianity in an attempt to make slaves more complacent with their enslaved ...

  7. What Made America's Founders Perpetuate Slavery - AOL

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    The founders did virtually nothing to abolish slavery because, fearing for their lives, they put their own safety first. ... and the rest felt the guns of disunion and civil war pointing at their ...

  8. Changes to the Mosaic Law throughout history - Wikipedia

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    Slavery is codified in numerous verses in the Torah. [4] After the destruction of the First Temple, the prophets of Israel abolished the enslavement of Israelites by Israelites. [citation needed] During the Second Temple period, the prophet Nehemiah rebuked the wealthy Jews for continuing to enslave poor Jews. [5]

  9. ‘God, slavery and ballot mules’: Inside grassroots campaigns ...

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    MAGA-aligned people have toured the United States spreading unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud to communities