Believing Africans lacked souls let slavery coexist with Christian morality

Evidence

Moreover, White Americans believed that slavery helped Africans by exposing them to the gospel of Jesus Christ through their masters and Anglo- Protestant cultural norms. Despite religiously grounded opposition by Quakers and other Christian minorities, the prevailing view was that Africans were not human because they purportedly lacked souls. Hence slavery continued for centuries without contradicting mainstream Christian morality. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 222

Categorization

• XREF: Mirrors the argument in Aziz’s own thesis about Muslims being cast as outside the moral community; and echoes the ‘On Sacrifice’ piece’s theme of religious justification for dehumanizing others. — connects to: Evangelicals frame abortion as the slavery of their generation — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 248; Theology justified slavery and genocide by marking whiteness as Christian — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 145; The leading southern Baptist theologian felt no moral qualm about owning slaves — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 105 (+3 more)