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LET MY PEOPLE STAY
From "Southern Slavery, As It Was, " a booklet written
by Pastor Douglas Wilson of the Association of
Classical and Christian Schools and Pastor Steve
Wilkins of the League of the South, an organization
classifid as a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty
Law Center. The booklet was required reading for
ninth graders at Cary Chrisahn School in Cary , North
Carolina, until 2004, when it was withdrawn over
charges that much of it was plagiarized.
Sodomites parade in the streets, claiming that if we do not appropriate more money to study why people with foul sexual habits get sick, we are somehow violating their civil rights. Feminists, in rebellion against God, invert the order of the home established by God. They do so in a way that seeks to rob women of their beauty in submission and their security in being loved. How did we get here, and what is the way out! The question cannot be answered fully without careful study of the War Between the States and the controversies surrounding it. Slavery was one of those controversies.
May a Christian own slaves, even when this makes him part of a larger pagan system that is not fully scriptural, or perhaps not scriptural at all? Provided that he owns them in conformity to Christ's laws for such situations, the Bible is clear that Christians may own slaves.
Slavery as it existed in the South was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence. There has never been a multiracial society that has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world. The gospel enabled men who were distinct in nearly every way to live and work together, to be friends and often intimates. This happened to such an extent that moderns indoctrinated by "civil rights" propaganda would be thunderstruck to know the half of it.
In the South, there were times when slaves were punished, and when this happened, they were commonly punished by means of whipping. Some whippings were severe. In other instances, whipping was as mildly applied as the corporal punishment normally practiced within families today.
But it was far more in the master's interest to motivate his slaves by positive means. Nearly every slave in the South enjoyed a higher standard of living than the poor whites of the South--and had a much easier existence.
Slave owners promoted high standards of morality among their slaves. Marriage was encouraged. Adultery was punished, and divorce was discouraged by the whip.
The thesis that systematic breeding of slaves for sale in the market accounted for a major share of the net income of slaveholders is often espoused. The proponents of the breeding thesis have been misled by their failure to recognize the difference between human beings and animals. Promiscuity increases venereal disease and reduces fertility, and emotional factors are of considerable significance in successful human conception. To imply that these factors would not be present in black people is inherently racist.
Furthermore, slave families were not matriarchal, as is commonly assumed. The husband was the head of the house, and there was a strong familial bond between family members. One could argue that the black family has never been stronger than it was under slavery. It was certainly stronger under the southern slave system than it is today under our destructive welfare state.
Critics of the South have consistently accused slave owners and overseers of turning plantations into personal harems. Such arguments overlook the real and potentially large costs that confronted masters and overseers sought sexual pleasures in the slave quarers. It would have been much easier, and less risky, for owners of large plantations to keep a mistress in town than to risk the destruction of their own families by taking up with a slave woman. Further, to imply that black men would be indifferent to the sexual abuse of their women is to imply that they were somehow less manly than other men. This common assumption about slave men is an insult to their humanity and patently racist.
Slavery produced in the South a genuine affection between the races that we believe we can say has never existed in any nation before the Civil War or since. Listen to a few examples:
George Fleming of Laurens, South Carolina, said: "I longed to see Marse Sam Fleming. Lawd, chile, dat's de best white man what ever breathed de good air. As old as I is, I still draps a tear when I see his grave, fer he sho' was good to me and all his other niggers."
Clara Davis of Alabama said: "Dem was de good ole days. How I longs to be back dar wid my ole folks an' playin' wid de chillun down by de creek. I done tol' de Lawd I don't want nothin' much . . . only my home, white folks."
Adeline Johnson, Winnsboro, South Carolina: "I want to be in heaven with all my white folks, just to wait on them, and love them, and serve them, sorta like I did in slavery time. That will be enough heaven for Adeline."
There is a nobility to these old servants that humbles us: Nicey Pugh says, "I was born a slave but I ain't neber been one. I'se been a worker for good peoples. You wouldn't calls dat bein' a slave would you, white folks!"
The issue of slavery was used to provoke a revolution in 1861. That revolution has continued to this day, and slavery has increased in our land as a result. It is time for us to stand and declare the truth about slavery and to expose the failures of the abolitionist worldview.
From "Southern Slavery, As It Was, " a booklet written
by Pastor Douglas Wilson of the Association of
Classical and Christian Schools and Pastor Steve
Wilkins of the League of the South, an organization
classifid as a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty
Law Center. The booklet was required reading for
ninth graders at Cary Chrisahn School in Cary , North
Carolina, until 2004, when it was withdrawn over
charges that much of it was plagiarized.
Sodomites parade in the streets, claiming that if we do not appropriate more money to study why people with foul sexual habits get sick, we are somehow violating their civil rights. Feminists, in rebellion against God, invert the order of the home established by God. They do so in a way that seeks to rob women of their beauty in submission and their security in being loved. How did we get here, and what is the way out! The question cannot be answered fully without careful study of the War Between the States and the controversies surrounding it. Slavery was one of those controversies.
May a Christian own slaves, even when this makes him part of a larger pagan system that is not fully scriptural, or perhaps not scriptural at all? Provided that he owns them in conformity to Christ's laws for such situations, the Bible is clear that Christians may own slaves.
Slavery as it existed in the South was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence. There has never been a multiracial society that has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world. The gospel enabled men who were distinct in nearly every way to live and work together, to be friends and often intimates. This happened to such an extent that moderns indoctrinated by "civil rights" propaganda would be thunderstruck to know the half of it.
In the South, there were times when slaves were punished, and when this happened, they were commonly punished by means of whipping. Some whippings were severe. In other instances, whipping was as mildly applied as the corporal punishment normally practiced within families today.
But it was far more in the master's interest to motivate his slaves by positive means. Nearly every slave in the South enjoyed a higher standard of living than the poor whites of the South--and had a much easier existence.
Slave owners promoted high standards of morality among their slaves. Marriage was encouraged. Adultery was punished, and divorce was discouraged by the whip.
The thesis that systematic breeding of slaves for sale in the market accounted for a major share of the net income of slaveholders is often espoused. The proponents of the breeding thesis have been misled by their failure to recognize the difference between human beings and animals. Promiscuity increases venereal disease and reduces fertility, and emotional factors are of considerable significance in successful human conception. To imply that these factors would not be present in black people is inherently racist.
Furthermore, slave families were not matriarchal, as is commonly assumed. The husband was the head of the house, and there was a strong familial bond between family members. One could argue that the black family has never been stronger than it was under slavery. It was certainly stronger under the southern slave system than it is today under our destructive welfare state.
Critics of the South have consistently accused slave owners and overseers of turning plantations into personal harems. Such arguments overlook the real and potentially large costs that confronted masters and overseers sought sexual pleasures in the slave quarers. It would have been much easier, and less risky, for owners of large plantations to keep a mistress in town than to risk the destruction of their own families by taking up with a slave woman. Further, to imply that black men would be indifferent to the sexual abuse of their women is to imply that they were somehow less manly than other men. This common assumption about slave men is an insult to their humanity and patently racist.
Slavery produced in the South a genuine affection between the races that we believe we can say has never existed in any nation before the Civil War or since. Listen to a few examples:
George Fleming of Laurens, South Carolina, said: "I longed to see Marse Sam Fleming. Lawd, chile, dat's de best white man what ever breathed de good air. As old as I is, I still draps a tear when I see his grave, fer he sho' was good to me and all his other niggers."
Clara Davis of Alabama said: "Dem was de good ole days. How I longs to be back dar wid my ole folks an' playin' wid de chillun down by de creek. I done tol' de Lawd I don't want nothin' much . . . only my home, white folks."
Adeline Johnson, Winnsboro, South Carolina: "I want to be in heaven with all my white folks, just to wait on them, and love them, and serve them, sorta like I did in slavery time. That will be enough heaven for Adeline."
There is a nobility to these old servants that humbles us: Nicey Pugh says, "I was born a slave but I ain't neber been one. I'se been a worker for good peoples. You wouldn't calls dat bein' a slave would you, white folks!"
The issue of slavery was used to provoke a revolution in 1861. That revolution has continued to this day, and slavery has increased in our land as a result. It is time for us to stand and declare the truth about slavery and to expose the failures of the abolitionist worldview.