This is a category error. There were rationalizations for slavery drawn from Christianity, just as there were rationalizations drawn from science, history, & law. But abolitionism was *driven* by the movement to impose Christian moral limits on human self-interest.https://twitter.com/brianros1/status/1433292459849682947 …
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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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Famously no other country has ever ended slavery without the guiding light of Christ
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It’s self brainwashing. People simply cannot accept that something they like (abolition) was intimately linked with something they abhor (organized religion). You see the exact same thing with those who insist that secession was mostly not about slavery.
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Cite your sources then Dan, instead of hurling insults at me.
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