A Macon Baptist church financed operations partly through selling slaves

Evidence

In a single week in 1855, the church accounts-receivable ledger detailed income from the sale of two teenage boy slaves for 950 each, equivalent to a total of about 56,000 today. That same week, the accounts-payable ledger reflected a payment toward the pastor’s salary and the church building fund. The inescapable conclusion was that at least some of the funds from the sale of church members’ slaves went to pay the church’s bills. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 591

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Southern Baptist Convention was founded specifically to defend slaveholding Christianity. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 17; Enslaved church members built and financed the churches that then excluded them — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 595; The medieval Christian church profited from an eight-century European slave trade — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 513 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Enslaved church members built and financed the churches that then excluded them #exemplifies (0.90) — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 595
• The medieval Christian church profited from an eight-century European slave trade #expands (0.80) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 513
• Racist theological ideas sanctioned and made American slavery acceptable to Christian churches #complicates (0.75) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 20
• Religious conversion made slaveholders more cruel, not less #complicates (0.75) — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 246
• Early missionary Christianity framed slave conversion as overriding slave service. #complicates (0.70)