The Church and Prejudice: Compare and Contrast
The Church and Prejudice: Compare and Contrast
James Gillespie Birney, "The American Churches, The Bulwarks of Slavery" (1842)
If you're looking for copious primary sources to support the broader claims Douglass makes about American churches' support for slavery, they're right here. Birney wrote this pamphlet (It's about f...
William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator (1831-1865)
Garrison's anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator, was the voice of a generation of abolitionists. While he and the abolition movement had their differences at times, Garrison was a superb writer wh...
Charles Colcock Jones, The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States (1842)
Charles Colcock Jones was a Presbyterian minister and plantation owner. He was born into a plantation family in Liberty County, Georgia.He struggled with the morality (or immorality) of slavery, es...
George Fitzhugh, Sociology for the South, or The Failure of a Free Society (1854)
George Fitzhugh was born into a Virginia slaveholding family in financial decline. He was an ardent defender of slavery, believing Africans were racially inferior and that it "elevated" Africans to...
Thornton Stringfellow, "A Brief Examination of Scripture Testimony on the Institution of Slavery" (1850)
First, can we just say that "Thornton Stringfellow" sounds like he should be in a Dickens novel?Okay, moving on.First, Thornton Stringfellow was one of many people spilling ink trying to prove that...
Speech at Western Michigan University by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
MLK, Jr., no slouch at speechmaking himself, was asked to talk about racism at Western Michigan University in December 1963, four months after rocking the nation with his "I Have a Dream" speech in...