Abolitionists invoked Christian slavery in Barbary to oppose Black slavery

Evidence

Tellingly, the image of Christian slavery was used by abolitionists in opposing Black slavery in the United States. Kidd, American Christians and Islam, 36; Stovall, White Freedom, 51. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1408

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Extends the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ article’s logic of cross-cultural moral signaling — here the same Orientalist image serves a domestic abolitionist agenda.
• SEED: Article angle: abolitionists borrowed the Barbary captivity image strategically — yet 47 shows the effort failed because White Christian slavery was seen as categorically worse, undercutting the analogy.
• XREF: connects to: The Park51 fight revived the white-captivity narrative of the Barbary era — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 658