Forwarded from Caleb
“In fact these dark skinned people would have worried them to a point that they would become part of their denoscriptions of the devil himself. The few records that exist of the Puritans describing what they felt was the devil sound a lot like a black man dressed like an Indian. Therefore black or red did not really matter to them, they were all the devil’s children if they were not created in God’s image of being White.”
—Ideas Of Race In The Puritan, Frank Pomeroy
—Ideas Of Race In The Puritan, Frank Pomeroy
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Forwarded from Caleb
Colonial Virginia September 17th, 1630.
[Perhaps Hugh Davis received a whipping and had to acknowledge that he committed fornication with an African woman because the legislators believed that interracial fornication was more sinful. Compare Davis's punishment with that handed out to Robert Sweat in 1640.]
[Perhaps Hugh Davis received a whipping and had to acknowledge that he committed fornication with an African woman because the legislators believed that interracial fornication was more sinful. Compare Davis's punishment with that handed out to Robert Sweat in 1640.]
Hugh Davis to be soundly whipped, before an assembly of Negroes and others for abusing himself to the dishonor of God and shame of Christians, by defiling his body in lying with a negress; which fault he is to acknowledge next Sabbath day.
Source: Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large, vol. 1, p. 146.❤5
Forwarded from Caleb
Herman Bavinck in a journal entry from that period (1908), he wrote about how “a Southerner” had told him African Americans were “not humans” (rather, he was told, they were a mixture of human and ape).
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Forwarded from Caleb
“But while we believe that ‘God made of one blood all nations of men to dwell under the whole heavens,’ we know that the African has become, according to a well-known law of natural history, by the manifold influences of the ages, a different, fixed species of the race, separated; from the white man by traits bodily, mental and moral, almost as rigid and permanent as those of genus. Hence the offspring of an amalgamation must be a hybrid race, stamped with all the feebleness of the hybrid, and incapable of the career of civilization and glory as an independent race.”
-Rev. Dr. R.L. Dabney
(Confederate Army Chaplain and Chief of Staff to Stonewall Jackson, who served on the faculties of Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, the University of Texas, and Austin Theological Seminary)
(A Defense of Virginia, and Through Her, the South. New York: E.J. Hale & Son. 1867. pp.352-353)
-Rev. Dr. R.L. Dabney
(Confederate Army Chaplain and Chief of Staff to Stonewall Jackson, who served on the faculties of Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, the University of Texas, and Austin Theological Seminary)
(A Defense of Virginia, and Through Her, the South. New York: E.J. Hale & Son. 1867. pp.352-353)
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Forwarded from Presbyterian and Reformed (Peter Ramus)
If you want an an example of the deep-seated anti-Christianity that exists in the South, keep in mind that this song went to #1 on the country charts.
Christians need to have an open, honest discussion of the South and Southern identity that is more than rehashing talking points about slavery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMvyM3iReZA
Christians need to have an open, honest discussion of the South and Southern identity that is more than rehashing talking points about slavery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMvyM3iReZA
YouTube
Cal Smith - The Lord Knows I'm Drinking
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