Americans condemned white enslavement while justifying African slavery on racial theology.

Evidence

Although stridently opposed to the enslavement of White Christians by Muslims, Americans justified the enslavement of Africans based on Christian theological notions that Blacks were racially inferior. That nearly a third of the Africans were Muslims only further justified the racist logic. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 510

Categorization

• XREF: Powerful parallel to the ‘white slavery’ moral panics in the era and to modern selective humanitarian outrage; echoes themes in the reader’s sacrifice article about which deaths count. — connects to: Racist theological ideas sanctioned and made American slavery acceptable to Christian churches — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 20; Americans justified enslaving Africans by declaring them godless heathens without souls; White Redeemers used Christian theology to justify reversing Reconstruction with violence — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 1037 (+6 more)
• SEED: Angle: ‘who counts as a slave’ — the rhetorical construction of slavery around race and religion as a template for today’s selective outrage.

Broader Connections

• Racist theological ideas sanctioned and made American slavery acceptable to Christian churches #corroborates (0.90) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 20
• American revolutionaries opposed their own enslavement while judging only blacks deserving of it #corroborates (0.90) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1974
• US government has used religion to justify racial subordination throughout history #expands (0.85) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1068
• Theology justified slavery and genocide by marking whiteness as Christian #expands (0.85) — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 145
• Americans justified enslaving Africans by declaring them godless heathens without souls #exemplifies (0.80)
• American racialization of slaves ran on labor and land, not on religion #contradicts (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 207
• French conquest itself drove displaced Africans into slavery while condemning it #corroborates (0.75)
• White Redeemers used Christian theology to justify reversing Reconstruction with violence #corroborates (0.72) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1037