Antebellum slavery : an Orthodox Christian view

Part A: Historical and ecclesiastical view of slavery

What is a slave?

The antiquity of slavery

Views of the early church on slavery

View of the Reformers and other theologians on slavery

Slavery and the Declaration of Independence

Condition of slaves in Africa

Slave insurrection in Haiti

Slavery in the other Americas and emancipation in the British West Indies

Wealth in the Old South

The concept of honor in the Old South

Revelations about attitudes toward Negroes in the North and the West

The rabid abolitionists

Mr. Lincoln, his war, and emancipation

Total war and reconstruction: excesses of the war against the South

Slavery today

Ludicrous political apologies

Part B: The true view of slavery in the Antebellum South

The Federal Writers' Project of 1936-1938

Impact of slavery on the family structure

Who was behind the great Southern slave auction?

Runaways, patrollers, and slave catchers in the Old South

Dr. R.Q. Mallard's account of Antebellum slavery

Christmas on the plantation

A close familial bond

John Jasper (1812-1901): Slave preacher, pastor

Part C: The biblical view of slavery

Slavery and the sin of Ham

Abraham gains slaves in Egypt

Abraham rescues Lot with his slave army

A runaway slave

Spiritual responsibilities of masters

Abraham and Abimelech

God blessed Abraham with many slaves

Isaac: A slaveholder

Jacob: A slaveholder

Joseph unjustly sold into slavery

The Children of Israel are slaves in Egypt

Slavery and the Ten Commandments

Slavery regulated

Hebrew slaves and heathen slaves

The fugitive slave laws and Deuteronomy 23:15

Ezra and slavery

Job on the treatment of slaves

Jesus and the Centurion

The Apostle Peter and slavery

St. Paul's instructions to Christian slaves

St. Paul and slavery

St. Paul's instructions to Timothy

St. Paul's Epistle to Titus

St. Paul and the runaway slave

Slavery and the Golden Rule

Atheist attack upon the Bible's stand on slavery

Everyone is a slave!

Epilogue

Appendix A: Robert E. Lee's quote on slavery

Appendix B: Hopkins answers his critics, October 1863

Appendix C: Learned men who defended slavery