Could You List the Positive Aspects of Slavery? A Teacher Asked 8th-Graders to Do So

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19. It grew the Baptist, Methodist & Presbyterian Churches, who promoted Southern Paternalism.

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The minsiters of those southern churches became very wealthy people, most owning slaves themselves.

They would move down from the north and marry into slaveholding households, get land, slaves, money, and congregations. They mostly taught that slaveholders were doing God's work, as they were allowing slaves the ability to become Christians. When the slave uprisings occurred, the churches held two services, a Whites Only service, bestowing the benefits of slavery and a slave service, telling them that if they are good to their masters and work, while lfe will be difficult, they will gain eternal salvation in the afterlife. These ministers took whatever small wealth the slaves had, as their congregations doubled in size.

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