Black Baptist reformers blamed slavery for weakening black fathers’ parental roles

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Moore emphasized that the black father must assume greater parental responsibility, which she believed had diminished, to some extent, because of slavery. However, she stated: “I’m a little afraid that in all races fathers too often shirk their part in the training of their children, though they may provide for their temporal wants.” — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 1302

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