Losing Our Religion
Format
Oral Presentation
Faculty Mentor Name
Jeffrey Hole
Faculty Mentor Department
English
Abstract/Artist Statement
This work will explore the different relationships the white slave owners of Antebellum America and their slaves had to their Christian teachings. Christianity has always raised questions of morality. For millennia, Christianity has been used as a tool to define right and wrong, and often the Christian teachings have justified horrific actions by its followers. For example, the leaders and founders America during the 18th and 19th centuries used their Christianity as a justification to keep their “property”, meaning African slaves, and profit from it. Therefore, they concluded that it was necessary to convert their slaves in order for them to accept their enslavement. However, the slaves and abolitionists reversed these Christian ideologies and used them as a tool for abolition as seen in slave narratives, famous novels of the time, and the Bible itself.
Location
DeRosa University Center, Room 211
Start Date
20-4-2013 11:50 AM
End Date
20-4-2013 12:05 PM
Losing Our Religion
DeRosa University Center, Room 211
This work will explore the different relationships the white slave owners of Antebellum America and their slaves had to their Christian teachings. Christianity has always raised questions of morality. For millennia, Christianity has been used as a tool to define right and wrong, and often the Christian teachings have justified horrific actions by its followers. For example, the leaders and founders America during the 18th and 19th centuries used their Christianity as a justification to keep their “property”, meaning African slaves, and profit from it. Therefore, they concluded that it was necessary to convert their slaves in order for them to accept their enslavement. However, the slaves and abolitionists reversed these Christian ideologies and used them as a tool for abolition as seen in slave narratives, famous novels of the time, and the Bible itself.