These people really have been brainwashed to deny the central, indispensable role of Christianity in the American & global anti-slavery movements, without which we do not get the end of slavery (ditto the end of segregation).https://twitter.com/roneman90/status/1433381922214973447 …
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Of course, as I've argued for years, the Christian moralists did not end slavery alone. They needed to join a broader Free Soil movement & Republican Party that fused their concerns w/free marketers & the political principles of the American founding.
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But it is seriously impossible to tell the story of the fight against slavery without acknowledging that its origins in the US & Britain were Christian & religious, & that the drive to impose Christian morality was a sine qua non of abolition.
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And if you read histories of the development of Christian apologetics for slavery - Eugene Genovese covers this - it was heavily driven by the post hoc need to respond within Christian terms to an explicitly Christian movement.
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I probably need to write on this again. I've covered it from a few angles previously at some length. American anti-slavery begins with the Quakers, & its development follows the Second Great Awakening. https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/06/revisiting-uncle-toms-cabin/ … https://thefederalist.com/2015/06/09/can-gays-and-christians-coexist-in-america-part-ii/ …https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/yes-lincoln-and-the-union-freed-the-slaves/ …
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Is there a reason why these kinds of people think that Christianity has some special thing about it where it can be used for evil? That’s true of literally everything. “But that wasn’t real science, reason, etc.” Sound familiar?
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While most of the main players in the abolitionist movement were Christian, there was a disproportionate, relative to the population, representation of freethinkers involved.
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Sure, but they were such a small part of the populace at the time that they weren't key to the movement. Even if their views were closer to my own, they mattered less than the Quakers.
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