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“Men, again, who live up to the moral law, wont enslave their brethren.”
― The Light and Truth of Slavery. Aaron's History [1845]
― The Light and Truth of Slavery. Aaron's History [1845]
“It was necessary for black people to protest against segregation, King argued, to avoid cooperating with an evil system. If one passively accepted injustice, one enabled it to continue.”
― Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans
― Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans
“Because life is all about cycles.
And life, with its deadly surprises and unassuming horrors, with its mysteries and miseries, just goes on and on and”
― Mary
And life, with its deadly surprises and unassuming horrors, with its mysteries and miseries, just goes on and on and”
― Mary
“The former slaves preferred to focus on feeling the power of God's loves, in the tradition of the invisible institution of their parents and grandparents.”
― Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans
― Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans
“The desire to read the Bible for themselves - the Bible the slaveholders had so long misrepresented to them- motivated a good many former slaves to seek education.
For Northern teachers, whether white or black, education had a moral purpose. In addition to reading, writing, and arithmetic, they believed schools ought to instill habits of thrift, honesty, punctuality, temperance, and discipline to the ex-slaves, who seemed to be lax about these moral virtues. The former slaves, however, insisted God was not going to punish them for every little sin. For them the essence of religion was not in observing rules and regulations, but in experiencing the power of God's grace within their hearts.”
― Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans
For Northern teachers, whether white or black, education had a moral purpose. In addition to reading, writing, and arithmetic, they believed schools ought to instill habits of thrift, honesty, punctuality, temperance, and discipline to the ex-slaves, who seemed to be lax about these moral virtues. The former slaves, however, insisted God was not going to punish them for every little sin. For them the essence of religion was not in observing rules and regulations, but in experiencing the power of God's grace within their hearts.”
― Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans
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