“My interest in this discussion is not to show the South as a perfect place for blacks to be slaves in, but rather to show the Bible as the perfect book for Christians, then and now. In the several quotations that follow, the point is not to paint the South as a utopia. If the institution of slavery, as it was actually practiced in the South, had been one of horror upon horror, an apocalyptic evil, then of course the New Testament strictures on masters and slaves would not apply (because these strictures were not written for times of apocalyptic evil, but rather for normal sinners). But if the antebellum South was made up of normal sinners trying to make a profit by farming, and not by fiends running death camps from Georgia to Missouri, then the New Testament requirements do apply — straight across” (Black and Tan, p. 56).
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“But if the antebellum South was made up of normal sinners trying to make a profit by farming, and not by fiends running death camps from Georgia to Missouri…”
Truth is, it was made up of a bit of both.