The Color of Compromise - Session 3 - Understanding Liberty in the Age of Revolution and Revival
Color of Compromise (Jemar Tisby)
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The American church compromised with racism in the eighteenth century by permitting slavery to continue. Clergymen like George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards typify the contradiction of American Christianity: they attempted to treat the people they enslaved humanely, yet they still acquiesced to slavery, even practicing it themselves. In fact, it was racism in the white church that gave rise to the first historically black Christian denomination, the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME).
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