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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5609342" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>There's plenty of pro Christian writings by Jefferson.  And the abolitionists were very much Christians.  That movement started in England first.  Were slave owners Christian?  Yes.  If you read Philemon you'll find how the Apostle Paul dealt with the issue.  As men became more enlightened they realized the evil of it.  What caused that enlightenment?  Industrialization.  The development of machines that could do the work of many men.  There could no longer be excuses for enslaving men.  You want to portray all Christians as of one mind but there were many schisms within Christendom and one certainly was that Christian abolitionists pushed for freedom of the slaves.</p></blockquote><p></p>