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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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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