How did the Protestants justify the introduction of slavery in America?

The parts of North America that later became the US were settled by assorted newly formed Protestant religions seeking freedom from oppression. They were the only force in American history for centuries. They are solely responsible for introducing slavery. How did the White Anglo Saxon Protestant justify the enslavement of the black man? With Southern Baptist being the religion of the plantation owners? Why did the French Catholics, who settled Canada, reject slavery?How did the Protestants justify the introduction of slavery in America?
The French in Canada did not rely on slavery economically, as they were primarily fur traders. The English settlers, on the other hand, were primarily agricultural, and greatly used indentured servitude, and later, downright slavery, to obtain a source of cheap labor for their fields.



From the beginning, many spoke out against slavery; that's why there was the separation of slave states and free states some time before the Civil War. However, the fact is that there was such economic investment in slavery from the richest in the country--the men who owned the giant plantations--that they did not want to free their slaves. They knew it was wrong, but they did not want to bankrupt themselves overnight either.



It's an unfortunate period of American history, but that's just how it was. They weren't evil people who wanted to oppress the black man, they were simply fools who cared more about their own money than they cared about their fellow man.
At the time slavery was introduced there, almost every other group was doing likewise. It was a global norm, and had been snce before the time of the Pharaohs. There was little or no philosophical or moral argument against slavery in most places.



French Catholics did not reject slavery - in fact the nation of Haiti came about as the result of a successful slave revolt against their French owners, the first in the Americas. They simply did not use them in North America because as traders, they had no need of them there.



It was the still-Protestant UK that was the first to abolish the slave trade, and later slavery itself, and that was the first significant against the practice that ultimately led to a near-global ban. The abolitionist movement had been led by prominent Protestant Christians like Clarkson and Wilberforce. Much of the subsequent growth of the British Empire was based on absorbing slave-trading states to end the practice, such as the Ashanti in West Africa and Zanzibar in East Africa. The shortest war in history, the 30-minute British-Zanzibari war, was for exactly that purpose.



One of the last nations to stop was Catholic Brazil in 1884, where even now indentured labour is common in the poorer and most traditionally religious part of the country, the north-east.



Even when France did abolish the trade, they did not abolish slavery itself in all places. The result is that even now in the predominantly-Muslim Sahel countries (once French colonies) slavery still exists as an inherited underclass.



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-atheistHow did the Protestants justify the introduction of slavery in America?
I'm guessing they cherry-picked passages from the Bible. You can support almost anything you want if you twist your interpretation of any particular verse.



The Bible does talk a lot about slavery--it happened quite frequently. I wonder what slave owners thought about the celebration of the Jubilee year (every 50 years or so) where all the slaves were freed.
slavery is allowed in the bible



there are hundreds of verses which say how, why and when it is justified.



Slavery, in general, is _NEVER_ condemned in the bible.
Most of the slave owners were not religious.

Most of the protesters against slavery were Christians so do not lump all slave owners together in one group.

Next how about them non white none Christian blacks who sold each other to the slave traders?
We were destined to be slaves, by the Bible. Read up on the Curse of Ham. I accept it. Well, at least not any longer.
The German and English Protestants did the same thing to South Africa. They justified their oppression and cruelty to people of color with Biblical scripture.
Slavery was introduced to North America by the Spanish. Slavery had been a European tradition for centuries.
Religions feel than people of other religion (or non-religious) are lesser beings %26amp; not an equal
They justified it through their ignorance.
Easy, non-white people aren't human.