Christianity: Justification for Slavery, License to Freedom
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The religiosity of slave masters
- Women in slavery
- Covey: The man behind the diabolical scheme
- The Christianity that Douglass and other slaves adopted
- Conclusion
- Works cited
Abstract
When the first Africans were taken from their homeland to be sold into bondage in the Americas, their religion was left behind with their freedom back in Africa. Their native religions, as well as their languages and various other aspects of culture, were banned from practice in the New World, with christianity and English imposed upon them as substitutes. As portrayed by Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs in their respective slave narratives, christianity served as a weapon of suppression for slave owners in the antebellum South. However, instead of accepting christianity as justification for slavery in America, slaves made the religion their own, interpreting christianity as support for the freedom and equality of all people.
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