Slavery God Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

“During America’s first century, racist theological ideas were absolutely critical to sanctioning the growth of American slavery and making it acceptable to the Christian…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Slavery as a moral issue never interested Ethel. If God had not meant for Africans to be enslaved, they wouldn’t be in chains.”

— Colson Whitehead

“All over Revolutionary America, African people were rejecting the racist compact that asserted that they were meant to be enslaved.16”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Many politicians and preachers defended slavery, citing the Bible’s approval of the practice, the inferiority of the African race, the value of preserving the…

— Steven Pinker

“For the African race, such as Providence has made it, and where He has placed it in America, slavery was the righteous, the best,…

— Robert Lewis Dabney

“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.”

— Angie Thomas

“The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner…

— Barry Unsworth

“African slavery lacked two elements that made American slavery the most cruel form of slavery in history: the frenzy for limitless profit that comes…

— Howard Zinn

“Slaves are governed by the fear of man, and, whenever the fear of man replaces the fear of God in a society, slavery reappears…

— R.J. Rushdoony

“Slavery proved to be a much more complicated issue for American evangelicals both North and South, who discovered that their religious attitudes and interpretations…

— Andrew Himes

“By the middle of the eighteenth century the black slave had sunk, with hushed murmurs, to his place at the bottom of a new…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“Give a slave slaves, and he will support slavery.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov