Slave owners in the American South had 'slave bibles' for their slaves to read but omitted a lot of the real bible so if the Bible actually did support slavery this wouldn't have been necessary. Alex says the fact that the 'Slave Bible' exists at all is a problem. Rather than being the majority of the Bible with select texts removed, Alex says this was a collection of select texts from the Bible. Alex says it is something like a topical portion of the Bible created for reading to slaves in the West Indies. Those parts omitted from the Slave Bible include Exodus, Psalms, and Revelation. There are other portions of the Bible that condone and legislate slavery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUJO_b2FrAI
9:00 in starts talking about Slave Bible.
The Bible Channel. Postscript - The Slave Bible. It was produced for slaves in the West Indies and was used in America. In it, verses were removed if the verses could be interpreted to encourage slaves to demand more from their masters, to disobey their masters, or to escape their masters to freedom. Significant parts of both the Old and New Testaments were removed so that it was innocuous enough that the slave master would allow it through. 823 of 929 Old Testament chapters were removed from the Slave Bible. 134 of 260 New Testament chapters were removed from the Slave Bible. Slave owners permitted this heavily redacted version to go to their slaves. The King James Bible has 967 chapters that the Slave Bible does not have. An awful lot had to be cut out in order to make the Slave Bible acceptable to masters of slaves.
I agree that the Slave Bible is a bad thing. I agree that the Slave Bible is an abuse of the Bible in order to promote or legitimize slavery. I agree that the existence of a Slave Bible is a bad look for Christianity. But because the Slave Bible was a bad idea created by people who wanted to legitimize slavery, it does not follow that because people used the Bible to do so that the Bible or the God of the Bible is evil or does not exist. The Slave Bible is a case of sinful people using the Bible to do something it should not be used to do. As Allen Parr said in a previous video utilized in this series, just because God makes laws to regulate something does not mean that God condones or approves of the thing being legislated. These slave owners obviously perverted the 19th century practice of slavery from how God originally intended it to be practiced, and manipulated their slaves for their own selfish ends. But because this Slave Bible is a bad look for slave masters does not mean that God is evil or does not exist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKK4FXm0bD4&t=57s
The Bible that DID SUPPORT SLAVERY! By Cross Examined.
As conversations about racism have dominated social discussions recently, this has shifted more into white supremacy and white supremacy has become more of a topic, the Bible has come up more in political discussions. We are told about how American slave owners use the Bible as a tool to maintain slavery and to keep slaves submissive. But is that true? Yes and no. NBC Nightly News does a clip on the Slave Bible. In the clip, Anthony Schmidt, the curator of the Museum of the Bible, tells us that about 90 % of the Old Testament has been removed and about 50 % of the New Testament has been removed. A normal KJV has 1189 chapters. A Slave Bible has 232 chapters. Missing are chapters and verses that might have encouraged uprisings. The Book of Exodus is redacted. The Book of Galatians is gone. Either all or part of Jeremiah is gone. The New Testament verses commanding servants to submit to masters remain. For many enslaved Africans, The Slave Bible would have been their first exposure to the Bible. The video says the Slave Bible has selectively edited the Bible to instill obedience using religion to underpin the horror of slavery. The president and CEO of the Museum of the Bible says this should not have happened and it should never happen again. He says the Bible is a whole book that is not to be carved up and used improperly. The Slave Bible was designed to repress slavery but it didn't work. Enslaved people in the Caribbean constantly fought against slavery until emancipation. The Cross Examined person finishes by saying that if you are a person that believes that the Bible supports and condones slavery, then ask yourself why the slave owners would take out the majority of the Bible when it went against their cause. The Cross Examined person asks if the Bible supports and condones slavery, then why the did slave owners have to take verses and passages out of context in order to spoon feed those verses to the slaves while keeping them ignorant on the rest of the Bible? The Cross Examined person surmises that it is almost as if the slave owner was too afraid for their slaves to read the whole Bible and then conclude that the Bible does not support slavery.
Music: "Evidence by Josh Baldwin