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Slavery in Florida did not end abruptly on one specific day. As news arrived of the end of the Civil War and the collapse of the Confederacy in the spring of 1865, slavery unofficially ended, as there were no more slave catchers or other authority to enforce the peculiar institution.
Paul, the author of several letters that are part of the New Testament, requests the manumission of a slave named Onesimus in his letter to Philemon, [3] writing "Perhaps the reason he was separated from you for a little while was that you might have him back forever—no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a dear brother" (Philemon 15-16).
Northern clergy increasingly preached against slavery in the 1830s. In the 1840s, slavery began to divide denominations. [163] This, in turn, weakened social ties between the North and South, allowing the nation to become even more polarized in the 1850s. [164] [165] The issue of slavery in the United States came to an end with the American ...
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]
Christian fundamentalism began as a movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to reject influences of secular humanism and source criticism in modern Christianity. In reaction to liberal Protestant groups that denied doctrines considered fundamental to these conservative groups, they sought to establish tenets necessary to maintaining ...
[91] This practice was a major mark of African American Christianity during the slavery period. Christianity came to the slaves of North America more slowly. Many colonial slaveholders feared that baptizing slaves would lead to emancipation because of vague laws that concerned the slave status of Christians under British colonial rule.
Race and Slavery in the Middle East, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-505326-5. Kellerman, Christopher J. (2022). All Oppression Shall Cease: A History of Slavery, Abolitionism, and the Catholic Church. Orbis. ISBN 978-1-62698-489-9. McKivigan, John R.; Snay, eds. (1998). Religion and the Antebellum Debate over Slavery. University ...
The message of spiritual equality appealed to many enslaved people, and, as African religious traditions continued to decline in North America, black people accepted Christianity in large numbers for the first time. [93] Evangelical leaders in the southern colonies had to deal with the issue of slavery more frequently than those in the North.