Also of note is that modern slave trade went exactly against Paul's teaching (based on OT) that KIDNAPPING was a sin ...
When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house. (Deuteronomy 21:10-14)
And when the Lord thy God hath delivered [a city] into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God hath given thee (Deuteronomy 20:13-14)
You have to admit that Abolition of Slavery was caused by the Bible
If, then, the Almighty had undertaken to enlighten the human race by degrees, with respect to the great sin of slavery, is it not wonderful that, in the very last revelation of his will, he has uttered not a single syllable in disapprobation thereof? Is it not wonderful, that he should have completed the revelation of his will, that he should have set his seal to the last word he will ever say to man respecting his duties, and yet not one word about the great obligation of the master to emancipate his slaves, nor about the ''appalling sin'' of slavery? Such silence must, indeed, appear exceedingly peculiar and anomalous to the abolitionist. It would have been otherwise had he written the New Testament. He would, no doubt, have inserted at least one little precept against the sin of slavery. - Arthur Taylor Bledsoe
My correspondent thinks with Mr. Jefferson, that Jehovah has no attributes that will harmonize with slavery; and that all men are born free and equal. Now, I say let him throw away his Bible as Mr. Jefferson did his and then they will be fit companions. - Rev. Thornton Stringfellow, D.D.
The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example. - Rev. R. Furman, D.D., Baptist, of South Carolina
There is not one verse in the Bible inhibiting slavery, but many regulating it. It is not then, we conclude, immoral. - Rev. Alexander Campbell
The extracts from Holy Writ unequivocally assert the right of property in slaves. - Rev. E.D. Simms, professor, Randolph-Macon College
I draw my warrant from the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to hold the slave in bondage. - Rev. Thomas Witherspoon, Presbyterian, of Alabama
The Holy Scriptures [...] do unequivocally authorize the relation of master and slave. - South Carolina Methodist Conference, 1836
People who are bitter and hateful about slavery are obviously bitter and hateful against God and his word, because they reject what God says and embrace what mere humans say concerning slavery. - Senator Charles Davidson, 1996
We therefore hold that abolitionism, which deems slavery a sin and therefore considers every slave holder a criminal and strives for its eradication, is the result of unbelief in its development of nationalism, deistic philanthropy, pantheism, materialism, and atheism.' [...] The more their non-religiosity increases and reaches the pinnacles of theoretical atheism and indifferentism, the more fanatically they fight for the principle of slave emancipation. - Pastor CFW Walther, President of the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran Church
Last of all, in this great struggle, we defend the cause of God and Religion. The Abolition spirit is undeniably atheistic. [...] This spirit of atheism, which knows no God who tolerates evil, no Bible which sanctions law, and no conscience that can be bound by oaths and covenants, has selected us for its victims, and slavery for its issue. - the Reverend Benjamin Morgan Palmer
In the light of God's truth the notion of created equality and unalienable right is falsehood and infidelity [...] The time has come when civil liberty, as revealed in the Bible and in Providence, must be re-examined, understood, and defended against infidel theories of human rights. - the Reverend F A Ross, Slavery Ordained Of God
[Slavery] was established by decree of Almighty God [...] it is sanctioned in the Bible, in both Testaments, from Genesis to Revelation ... - Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America.
The doom of Ham has been branded on the form and features of his African descendants. The hand of fate has united his color and destiny. Man cannot separate what God hath joined. - United States Senator James Henry Hammond.
Darwin's racists ideas.
Those who look tenderly at the slave-owner, and with a cold heart at the slave, never seem to put themselves into the position of the latter;what a cheerless prospect, with not even a hope of change! picture to yourself the chance, ever hanging over you, of your wife and your little childrenthose objects which nature urges even the slave to call his ownbeing torn from you and sold like beasts to the first bidder! And these deeds are done and palliated by men, who profess to love their neighbours as themselves, who believe in God, and pray that his Will be done on earth! (Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle)
But it is utterly false (as Cap Paget satisfactorily proved) that any, even the very best treated, do not wish to return to their countries. "If I could but see my father & my two sisters once again, I should be happy. I never can forget them." Such was the expression of one of these people, who are ranked by the polished savages in England as hardly their brethren, even in Gods eyes. From instances I have seen of people so blindly & obstinately prejudiced, who in other points I would credit, on this one I shall never again scruple utterly to disbelieve: As far as my testimony goes, every individuall who has the glory of having exerted himself on the subject of slavery, may rely on it his labours are exerted against miseries perhaps even greater than he imagines." (Darwin, Diary)
The state of the enormous slave population must interest everyone who enters the Brazils. Passing along the streets it is curious to observe the numbers of tribes which may be known by the different ornaments cut in the skin & the various expressions. From this results the safety of the country. The slaves must communicate amongst themselves in Portugeese & are not in consequence united. I cannot help believing they will ultimately be the rulers. I judge of it from their numbers, from their fine athletic figures, (especially contrasted with the Brazilians) proving they are in a congenial climate, & from clearly seeing their intellects have been much underrated. they are the efficient workmen in all the necessary trades. If the free blacks increase in numbers (as they must) & become discontented at not being equal to white men, the epoch of the general liberation would not be far distant. [...] I hope the day will come when they will assert their own rights & forget to avenge these wrongs. (Darwin, Diary)
We had several quarrels, for when out of temper he [Captain Fitzroy] was utterly unreasonable. For instance, early in the voyage at Bahia in Brazil he defended and praised the slavery which I abominated, and told me that he had just visited a great slave owner, who had called up many of his slaves and asked them whether they were happy, and whether they wished to be free, and all answered no. I then asked him perhaps with a sneer, whether he thought that the answer of slaves in the presence of their master was worth anything. (Darwin, Autobiography)
I have watched how steadily the general feeling, as shown at elections, has been rising against Slavery.What a proud thing for England, if she is the first Europan Nation which utterly abolishes it. I was told before leaving England, that after living in Slave countries, all my opinions would be altered; the only alteration I am aware of is forming a much higher estimate of the Negro character. It is impossible to see a Negro, and not feel kindly towards him. (Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle)
Has not the white man, who has debased his nature by making slave of his fellow Black, often wished to consider him as other animal. it is the way of mankind & I believe those who soar above such prejudices yet have justly exalted nature of man. (Darwin, Notebooks on the transmutation of species)
If to what Nature has granted the Brazils, man added his just & proper efforts, of what a country might the inhabitants boast. But where the greater parts are in a state of slavery, & where this system is maintained by an entire stop to education, the mainspring of human actions, what can be expected; but that the whole would be polluted by its part. (Darwin, Diary)
The land of the Brazilians [...] a land also of slavery, and therefore of moral debasement. (Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle)
On the 19th of August we finally left the shores of Brazil. I thank God, I shall never again visit a slave-country. (Darwin, Voyages of the Beagle)
Some few, and I am one of them, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would proclaim a crusade against slavery. In the long-run, a million horrid deaths would be amply repaid in the cause of humanity. What wonderful times we live in! Massachusetts seems to show noble enthusiasm. Great God! how I should like to see the greatest curse on earthslaveryabolished! (Darwin, Letter to Asa Gray, 1861)
If abolition does follow with your victory, the whole world will look brighter in my eyes. (Darwin, Letter to Asa Gray, 1861)
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