The Bible Was Used to Justify Slavery — and the Church Was Wrong. Here's Why
Pro-slavery preachers cited Leviticus 25:44-46, Ephesians 6:5, Colossians 3:22, and Philemon from American pulpits for two centuries — they had a biblical case that was technically grounded in specific verses, and they were still catastrophically wrong, because snapshot reading always loses to trajectory reading
Black Skin Is Not a Biblical Curse. Here's Why
No verse in the Bible connects skin color to divine punishment — the "Curse of Ham" theology was fabricated by European slaveholders in the 1400s-1600s to justify the Atlantic slave trade, and the text it claims to cite actually curses the Canaanites, says nothing about race, and says nothing about Africa