N.C. School Pulls Slavery Booklet

[luaneryder]

Cary Christian School has pulled a booklet that attempts to provide a biblical justification for slavery and asserts that slaves weren't treated as badly as people believe.

School officials argued they weren't condoning slavery by having students read the booklet. They say they removed it from the school's ninth-grade curriculum after they learned about faulty footnotes and citation errors in the publication.

Principal Larry Stephenson says students read "Southern Slavery, As It Was," for two days when they study the Civil War. The school says it used the booklet because it is difficult to find writings that both sympathize with the South and explore what the Bible says about slavery.

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[annabanana]

1. they don't want to hurt the South's FEELINGS?

There's some good folks down there that really should come to terms with that war we had, um, about 140 years ago.

In spite of appearances in Washington, they DID lose.

[Solly Mack]

2. Just boggles the mind

[itzamirakul]

3. So...they will make corrections...

and reissue it?

[bryant69]

4. That is an interesting subject, but not one for ninth graders

I mean it is valid to look at how the South Justified slavery. But that's not an age where one can understand the fine points--seems like it would turn more into a slavery justification class.

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[luaneryder]

8. As I recall

the school was attempting to make the slavery issue more in line with Bible teachings.

[Ms_Mary]

10. I took African American History in college

I think everyone should take it. It was sobering.

[Dr.Phool]

5. A couple of years ago

PBS aired a series, it may have been "Black in America", I'm not sure. But the Carolinas were the absolute worst for slaves. Settled by plantation owners from Aruba and Barbados, they made the economic decision that it was cheaper to to work slaves to death and buy new ones, than to take care of them.

Sounds like they were pretty happy to me.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Sheesh, what's next? That slavery was a valid form of labor relations?

Great jobs program? Terrific economic stimulus? Punishment was only to make the malcontents God-fearing?

Whole issue begs the question: if slavery is soooooo correct and right, then how come it never is voluntary? Why are there laws in place to perpetuate its existence and to maintain humanbeings as property of other humanbeings, like farm animals?

I was disillusioned to discover that the motives of many northern abolitionists in the 19th century were predicated not on human dignity, but rather on the South having an unfair economic advantage over the North by its massive unpaid labor program with slaves. The North was afraid of the South overtaking its region by its growing wealth, and that was a major reason that slavery became untenable.

[Dr.Phool]

7. Honestly

An instructor at a Christion Coalition training seminar said, "Although slavery is illegal in this country, it's a good model for labor relations."

[Ms_Mary]

9. Well, hey, if the footnotes are faulty...good grief