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As I discovered while working on America's Prophet, my book on the influence of Moses in American history, both abolitionists and slave-holders in antebellum America tried to justify their slavery by quoting the Bible.
Bruce Feiler: When Pharaoh Falls: Six Lessons From The Exodus For Egypt Today Bruce Feiler 2011
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You mean like not allowing slave-holders to count their slaves as persons solely to amass political power in Congress?
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Archbishop Gregory Aymond acknowledged the records will also draw renewed attention to the uncomfortable fact that in colonial New Orleans the church and its religious orders were often slave-holders.
New Orleans Archbishop Apologizes For Slavery, Posts Records Online Bryan Maygers 2011
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As I discovered while working on America's Prophet, my book on the influence of Moses in American history, both abolitionists and slave-holders in antebellum America tried to justify their slavery by quoting the Bible.
Bruce Feiler: When Pharaoh Falls: Six Lessons From The Exodus For Egypt Today Bruce Feiler 2011
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Archbishop Gregory Aymond acknowledged the records will also draw renewed attention to the uncomfortable fact that in colonial New Orleans the church and its religious orders were often slave-holders.
New Orleans Archbishop Apologizes For Slavery, Posts Records Online Bryan Maygers 2011
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I also had ancestors who were slave-holders, which is a difficult piece of family history to say the least.
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It was a war of Northern Aggression for the purpose of robbing Southerners, slave-holders as well as non, blacks as well as whites, of their land, their rights, their sovereignty.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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But guess what? once enough people became aware that the “peculiar institution” of slavery was damaging (not to mention morally indefensible), it was removed, “interests” of slave-holders be damned.
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The "frozen-in-time" republican-democracy you good folk ballyhoo was the American Way of the Life of the slave-holders, the land thieves and the galoots.
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It was a war of Northern Aggression for the purpose of robbing Southerners, slave-holders as well as non, blacks as well as whites, of their land, their rights, their sovereignty.
Picketts charges 2009
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