Southern Baptists Eject & Reject Female Ministers

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13. From the 1820s-50s, Baptists were protecting slaveholders by preaching they were doing God's work.

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Then, they got slick and started to hold two services, one bestowing the virtues of slaveholders to the White communities, which before 1820 shunned slaveholders. The ministers offered slaves exposure to Christianity. By the 1850s, slaveholders became viewed as respected citizens in town. Mind you not all Whites bought into this. The elders resisted, the middle-aged were swayed and the younger grew up on this new philosophy. It took a generation to change the attitude.

The ministers found another way to make money by holding separate services for the slaves, telling them that while life on earth was hard, they would be promised goodness in the afterlife. They should work for their slaveholder and be productive and supportive of them.


So it doesn't surprise me that they took this position.

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