activist tactics in your defense of Jackson and using his teaching of slavery as a justification.

"Confederate heritage activists today deploy these facts in order to distance the Confederate cause from slavery. As one speaker suggested at the July 2017 Monument Avenue Commission meeting, Jackson’s Sunday school contradicts the notion that the Confederacy fought for slavery and white supremacy. If a future Confederate general had been so concerned about the Christian welfare of enslaved people, to the point of teaching them to read, how could his Confederate cause be seen as committed to the brutal enslavement of black people? Others use Jackson’s Sunday school class to claim that slaveholders were great humanitarians and it is not uncommon to encounter the idea that Jackson, and other allegedly “benevolent” slaveholders were actually civil rights pioneers.

These claims are rooted in common misunderstandings about Christianity and American racial slavery.

Jackson’s Sunday school fit seamlessly into a proslavery theology that worked not to undermine slavery (as the Sunday School myth claims), but to bolster the institution and make it work according to God’s plans. Proslavery Christianity rested on assumptions of the inherent incapacity of black people to manage their own spiritual lives, and the necessity of superior whites to instruct them in proper religion."

Now I am not saying you are or are not, but just as Jackson used his religious views to justify war for slavery and for enslaving, others at time used it to justify being against slavery and for war against it.

[Post edited by Mg234 at 10/30/2020 12:11AM]