Some American Christians still justify slavery - how?
Douglas Wilson's poem implied that the American institution of slavery was good and noble (“The Experiment” in Untune the Sky). In fact, the noun used in the poem to describe the supposed goal of the American South was “virtue.” Another work by Wilson, coauthored by Steve Wilkins, Southern Slavery as it Was. While ostensibly opposed to the “racism” of the South, the book was nothing other than a thorough defence of antebellum Christians who were slave owners. As a product of a secular university (and certainly a secular culture), you could easily be floored to see a well-known Christian leader defending slavery. Since then, you can find other Christians who believe the same thing: that the Bible not only permitted the American slave trade, but that those slave owners in the South who claimed the name of Christ and yet profited from the buying and selling of human beings could do so with a clean conscience before God. Perhaps the pertinacity of this belief explains lingering ra