In Episode 73 we resume our conversations about Jemar Tisby’s must-read history of racism in the American Church, The Color of Compromise. Susie, Libby, Reggie and I gathered around the microphones to talk about how slavery was made a permanent part of the American way of life legislatively, to institutionalize the “peculiar institution” of race-based slavery. But in the United States, we created a new kind of life-long slavery, known as “Chattel Slavery”, in which one’s status as a slave was inherited because of race and birth. The wicked and inescapable nature of US slavery was financially profitable for church institutions, whose financial support came from the tithes of slaveholders in the south and business owners in the North who made great profits off the sale of cotton products. Our multiethnic Antioch team discusses all this and more in today’s episode.

RESOURCES CITED:

White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun

Click to access okun_-_white_sup_culture.pdf

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
http://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300218664/they-were-her-property