by Sandy » Sat Dec 08, 2018 1:18 pm
It's a good insight to the culture to see how slaves were treated by church members in the Antebellum South. They weren't just allowed to attend church, they were required to in most cases, and not just to tend to the needs of their owners. There's not really any consistency in that with Christian faith and Biblical teaching, though the cultural context of the Bible recognized the existence of it as a human institution and gave advice on how to handle it rather than advocating for ending it. The opposition to slavery also drew its principles from the Bible in their efforts to get rid of it.
Someone has to have written on this dichotomy of American Christian existence somewhere, any recommendations? I can't recall that I've ever seen anything specific.