#slave bible

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Slave Bible’ Removed Passages To Instill Obedience And Uphold Slavery

[scottysystembuster]

"Slave Bible"

Slave owners in the United States liked to convert slaves to Christianity, but the places in the Bible where slavery was condemned were not worth seeing for slaves. The slave traders found a way around this: 10% of the Old Testament and 50% of the New Testament were left of the canonical text. As a result, the "Slave Bible" was born The Book of Exodus, how Moses led the Jews out of Egyptian slavery, was completely eliminated, but the story of Joseph's captivity and enslavement was preserved, apparently as a useful example of humility.

There is no apostle Peter's letter to the Galatians, the phrase "There is neither slave nor free ... for you are all one in Christ" might have led the slaves to the wrong thoughts and conclusions.

But there is Paul's letter to the Ephesians, because "Servants shall be obedient to their masters" fit perfectly with the general line. Don't like the story? Cut it out! Join us now:Before Our Time https://t.me/c/1368846992/1773

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[garyconkling]

Rewritten History and Unacknowledged History

Speaking of rewritten history, how about the Slave Bible, which became a roadmap for wiping out the inconvenient past.

Political conservatives deplore rewritten history, which they perceive in the 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory. However, rewriting history involves erasing events, achievements and people. The 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory seek to acknowledge and redress significant historical oversights. If you want rewritten history, there is no better example than the ‘Slave Bible’, created by…

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“The Slave Bible” is on display at the Museum of the Bible in Washington

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'Slave Bible' Converted Slaves to Christianity by Omitting Parts That Could Lead to Uprising

A new exhibit at a Washington, D.C., museum featuring an abridged version of the Bible sheds light on how Christian missionaries converted enslaved Africans to Christianity by teaching them the Gospel... except the parts about freedom, equality and resistance.

According to NPR, Parts of the Holy Bible, Selected For the Use of the Negro Slaves, in the British West-India Islands, is on display at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., and is one of only three known copies of this abridged version of the King James Bible. Printed by the Missionary Society For the Conversion of Negro Slaves, the text of the Bible was used by missionaries from England to convert slaves to Christianity.

The book is basically the enslavers extended remix of the King James version of the Bible, leaving out all that unnecessary junk that might lead slaves to turn on their masters. For instance, Moses doesn’t even exist until he is an old man in the “Slave Bible.”

“You’ll see a jump from Genesis 45, and they’ve cut out all the material to Exodus 19,” says Anthony Schmidt, associate curator of Bible and Religion in America at the museum. “What they’ve cut out is the story of the Israelites captivity in Egypt and their eventual liberation and journey to the promised land.”

The censored version removed 90 percent of the Old Testament and 50 percent of the New Testament, eliminating potentially seditious passages such as Exodus 21:16, which reads: “And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.”

However, the curators of the Slavery Bible did keep some passages that they thought were necessary for slaves, including Ephesians 6:5:

Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

The Missionary Society For the Conversion of Negro Slaves was a group of missionaries’ that was formed in 1794. The society’s original intent was to convert Native Americans to Christ but the group began to focus on enslaved Africans after the American Revolution.

The extremely rare artifact is on loan from Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., which has housed the “Slave Bible” in their special collection for more than 50 years. The only other known copies of the artifact are in the United Kingdom.

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[niggazinmoscow]

In 1808 a "Slave Bible" was published for Negro slaves. It was manipulative because it excluded all parts related to liberation or freedom and only had parts that emphasized obedience, submission, and acceptance.

[augustdementhe]

How is 2018 the first I’m hearing of this Slave Bible?

I mean that skeptically, like I want the Snopes of it and so on, because I’m finding it hard to believe that this is something that’s only just NOW come to light.

Not like I’m out here saying slaver scum was GOOD, and I’m not a Christian in good part because of my African ancestry. However, this only JUST coming out with all the other records and pictures and etchings and printings and so forth of how horrible this trash was...makes no sense. I smell bullshit.

Whether or not it’s just my top lip remains to be seen.