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http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2018/sep/18/major-role-catholic-church-played-slavery/

The Catholic Church played a vital role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, according to historians and several published thesiis on the topic.

The trans-Atlantic slave trade was introduced by the coming of the Europeans who came with the Bible in the same manner that Arab raiders and traders from the Middle East and North Africa introduced Islam through the Trans-Saharan slave trade, according to AfricaW.com, a premiere informational website available throughout the continent.

“In fact, the Church was the backbone of the slave trade,” the authors wrote. “In other words, most of the slave traders and slave ship captains were very ‘good’ Christians.”

For example, Sir John Hawkins, the first slave-ship captain to bring African slaves to the Americas, was a religious man who insisted that his crew “serve God daily” and “love one another.” His ship, ironically called “The Good Ship Jesus,” left the shores of his native England for Africa in October 1562. Some historians argue that if churches had used their power, the Atlantic slave trade might have never occurred.

By the same logic, others argue that the Catholic church and Catholic missionaries could have also helped to prevent the colonization and brutality of colonialism in Africa. However, according to a 2015 Global Black History report, the Catholic church did not oppose the institution of slavery until the practice had already become infamous in most parts of the world.

In most cases, the churches and church leaders did not condemn slavery until the 17th century.

The five major countries that dominated slavery and the slave trade in the New World were either Catholic, or still retained strong Catholic influences including: Spain, Portugal, France, and England, and the Netherlands.

“Persons who considered themselves to be Christian played a major role in upholding and justifying the enslavement of Africans,” said Dr. Jonathan Chism, an assistant professor of history at the University of Houston-Downtown.

“Many European ‘Christian’ slavers perceived the Africans they encountered as irreligious and uncivilized persons. They justified slavery by rationalizing that they were Christianizing and civilizing their African captors. They were driven by missionary motives and impulses,” Chism said.

Further, many Anglo-Christians defended slavery using the Bible. For example, white Christian apologists for slavery argued that the curse of Ham in Genesis Chapter 9 and verses 20 to 25 provided a biblical rationale for the enslavement of Blacks, Chism said.

In this passage, Noah cursed Canaan and his descendants arguing that Ham would be “the lowest of slaves among his brothers” because he saw the unclothedness of his father. A further understanding of the passage also revealed that while some have attempted to justify their prejudice by claiming that God cursed the black race, no such curse is recorded in the Bible.

That oft-cited verse says nothing whatsoever about skin color.

Also, it should be noted that Black race evidently descended from a brother of Canaan named Cush. Canaan’s descendants were evidently light-skinned – not black. “Truly nothing in the biblical account identifies Ham, the descendant of Canaan, with Africans. Yet, Christian apologists determined that Africans were the descents of Ham,” Chism said.

Nevertheless, at the beginning the sixteenth century, the racial interpretation of Noah’s curse became commonplace, he said.

In 2016, Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. offered a public apology after acknowledging that 188 years prior, Jesuit priests sold 272 slaves to save the school from financial ruin.

This is how The New York Times first reported the story: The human cargo was loaded on ships at a bustling wharf in the nation’s capital, destined for the plantations of the Deep South. Some slaves pleaded for rosaries as they were rounded up, praying for deliverance.But on that day, in the fall of 1838, no one was spared: not the 2-month-old baby and her mother, not the field hands, not the shoemaker and not Cornelius Hawkins, who was about 13 years old when he was forced onboard.

Their panic and desperation would be mostly forgotten for more than a century. But this was no ordinary slave sale. The enslaved African-Americans had belonged to the nation’s most prominent Jesuit priests. And they were sold, along with scores of others, to help secure the future of the premier Catholic institution of higher learning at the time, known today as Georgetown University.

“The Society of Jesus, who helped to establish Georgetown University and whose leaders enslaved and mercilessly sold your ancestors, stands before you to say that we have greatly sinned,” Rev. Timothy Kesicki, S.J., president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, said during a Liturgy of Remembrance, Contrition, and Hope.

“We pray with you today because we have greatly sinned and because we are profoundly sorry.”

During the early republic, Catholics celebrated the new Constitution for its guarantee of religious liberty while simply accepting its guarantee of slaveholding, according to Blackthen.com.

Internal church politics mattered too. When the Jesuit order was suppressed in 1773, the plantation system of the order in Maryland was seen as a protection for their identity and solidarity.

The universal church taught that slavery enjoyed the sanction of Scripture and natural law. Throughout the antebellum period, many churches in the South committed to sharing their version of the Christian faith with Blacks. They believed that their version of Christianity would help them to be “good slaves” and not challenge the slave system, Chism said.

“Yet, it is important to note that African Americans made Christianity their own, and Black Christians such as Nat Turner employed Christian thought and biblical texts to resist the slave system. Furthermore, Black and white abolitionist Christians played a major role in overturning the system of slavery,” he said.

Comments
atanya Aberra
The Bible does have five African nations in it while is not mentioned at all. With that, the Bible is not an historical document but rather a book of faith and should be appreciated in that way!
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John Pierson
Should historical documents of Babylon, Assyria, Greece, Rome, or Egypt all be called 'faith documents' because they don't include anything about the "America's, or even Skandinavian countries, or any of the nations of the far east? The Bible is proven historically regarding the people and territories that are the ones who interacted in the history of Israel. If you're going to discuss history, please know what you're talking about before you show the world your predjidice and ignorance.
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مازن السقاف
The history of humans is full of the tragedies that were build on religieus and ethical basis. Unfortunately we still have not learned the lesson. very shamful to abuse people in the name of God
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Al Mitchell
Genesis 9:22 Ham one of the sons of Noah saw his father’s unclothedness and told his brothers outside.
Genesis 9:24-26 Noah pronounced the curse on his youngest son (could he be referring to “Grandson”? Nonetheless the scriptures indicate that Canaan was cursed and was to be a slave to Shem and Japheth Noah’s to other sons.
Genesis 10:6 Ham became father to Cush, Mizarim, Put and Canaan.
Genesis 10:15-19 Canaan became father to various tribes in the land called, wait for it, Canaan. Thus the people were called Canaanites and settled in the land of Canaan the future promise land which God gave to t…See More
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Dawn Elise
And it is pretty clear that Ham "saw his father's unclothedness" not Canaan, yet Canaan was punished. Some scholars believe "saw his father's unclothedness" was used as a phrase meaning slept with their father's wife. I.e. Canaan was a product of incest and thus denied the ability to inherit from the cheated-upon. Thus, the verse has nothing to do with race, but rather with incest. It is important to discover the meaning of the Bible to the people who wrote it, not to weathy white men looking to use it to justify the unjustifiable centuries later.
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Al Mitchell
Descendants of Put may be from the N Africa area near Libya - Nahum 3:6
Descendants of Cush - (had six sins including Nimrod Babel Gen 10:8-12 Babel and Assyria ) may have settled parts of Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya - Jeremiah 13:23 (dark race) and at least one scholar say as far north as the SE corner of the Black Sea (Caucasus*).

*An article by P. English in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies (1959, Vol. XVIII, pp. 49-53) presents evidence of a Negro population in ancient times in the region of the SE corner of the Black Sea and later in the Caucasus region farther N. It suggests a relationship between the names of the regions of Abkhazia and Khazaria, inhabited by such tribes, and the Biblical Cush.

Descendants of Mizraim settled in Egypt - Gen 50:11

Thus their isn’t a sliver of evidence that the black race was cursed by God
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Teófilo de Jesús, Catholic Blogger
The headline purports to focus on the Catholic Church, the actual article is all over the place mentioning culprits. It also fails to mention the many priests, religious, and laymen who opposed the slave trade and ministered to the slaves. All things considered, this article is a vulgar hit piece.
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Joe Scheiman
It may be vulgar. It is still correct. The Church still played a huge role in the slave trade. You cannnot deny this fact. You also cannot deny the fact of the use of the Catholic faith to justify slavery. And yes, the preist and laymen that ministered ,or in the non-Catholic vernacular, stripped aways the religious and culural identity of enslaved Africans. Let us not forget about them. :/ All things considered, the Church then went on to help nazi's flee Europe, looking back, this is not suprising at all.
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Andrew Stone
It's nonsense because it was the Catholic Church started the debate as to whether slavery could be morally justified.

Of course the people who were involved in the trade were Christians but the question of whether slavery could be justified in church law was never raised until the Catholic church raised in the 16th century. HIstorically some Popes were known to be slaves. Similarly there was no barrier in law till the matter was brought up in the English courts in the 18th century

I wish people would type 'The Catholic Church and Slavery' into Google before pontificating without knowledge on the internet.
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tony Sachin
THE CHURCH AND ROMAN SLAVERY.—The first missionaries of the Gospel, men of Jewish origin, came from a country where slavery existed. But it existed in Judea under a form very different from the Roman form. The Mosaic Law was merciful to the slave (Ex., xxi; Lev., xxv; Dent., xv, xvi, xxi) and carefully secured his fair wage to the laborer (Dent.,) cxiv, 15). In Jewish society the slave was not an object of contempt, because labor was not despised as it was elsewhere. No man thought it beneath him to ply a manual trade. These ideas and habits of life the Apostles brought into the new society wh…See More

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