Christianizing the Slaves

As early as 1800 a bill was presented in the North Carolina General Assembly to “regulate the divine worship” of slaves, the intent of which was to require the master’s presence at plantation services. The American South had inherited the British colonial labor system which was supplemented by New England’s slave trade bringing more Africans to our shores, and did its best to bring them to the Christian faith.

Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net
===============================================================

Baptism, New Bern, NC
===============================================================

Christianizing the Slaves:

“In 1859 it was “mooted on the streets…as to whether the African churches under the care of the North Carolina Conference ought not to be suppressed, and the colored congregations be allowed to worship only in the same churches with white people.” The North Carolina Christian Advocate made a strong appeal for the Negro churches on the ground that the type of preaching which appealed to slaves would be distasteful to whites and that there was not sufficient room in the white churches to accommodate the Negroes.

The Methodists also maintained African missions in the State, located in sections where the Negro population was greatest. The missionaries worked with the plantation Negroes, organizing them into classes, appointing class leaders from among them, conducting Sunday schools and prayer meetings for them. The Presbyterian, Lutheran, Moravian and Episcopal churches also made a serious effort to give religious instruction to the slaves belonging to their communicants, but they were not as aggressive in Christianizing the Negroes as were the Baptists and Methodists.

Many masters felt, as did a correspondent of the North Carolina Presbyterian, that, next to their children, their servants had “the highest claims upon their benevolent feelings.” Some masters insisted that their slaves attend family prayers once a day; some built churches for the exclusive use of the plantation. And black and white worshipped together as one family. In 1827, Judge Cameron erected a chapel, “a neat and pleasant place of worship,” on his plantation between Hillsboro and Roxboro. That year the Bishop baptized twenty-six, only one of whom was a white child.”

(Antebellum North Carolina, A Social History, Guion Griffis Johnson, UNC Press, 1937, pp. 546-547)
==============================================================
Christianizing the Slaves

CZ BRNO RV85 Flare Launcher 26.5mm

FIRST TIME EVER AVAILABLE!

$299.99

"CBS drives a dagger in the heart of the Gunwalker cover-up!"

Chalk another death up to the ATF

===============================================================

"Kenneth Melson, Acting ATF Director and key figure in the Project Gunwalker fiasco and cover-up. He should stay out of Fort Marcy Park."

"In an exclusive interview with CBS News, the lead ATF official in Mexico at the time Darren Gil says somebody in the Justice Department did know about the case. Gil says his supervisor at ATF's Washington D.C. headquarters told him point-blank the operation was approved even higher than ATF Director Kenneth Melson."

v

The Battle Of Britain

OBAMA road signs northbound on I-5 near Chehalis, WA

Via Michael

MORE HERE.

SHOCKING AUDIO: Philadelphia Police violate rights of open carrier at gunpoint

Via The Truth About Guns

Gunwalker, "Waco Jim", CPI And Senator Grassley

John Solomon and the Center for Public Integrity continue to disappoint. They seem congenitally predisposed to conclude that the Project Gunwalker scandal is proof that we need to give the ATF more power and authority. To that end, they even haul out our old serial perjurer friend Waco Jim Cavanaugh in this article, "Border agents unwittingly freed suspects near border with weapons from federal sting," with the subtitle, "Episode highlights lack of tools, coordination in gun trafficking fight."

Really? I would have thought it would have raised more critical questions about "Gunwalker," but then I'm not partially funded by donations from gun prohibitionists.

Sri Lankan Muslims burn an effigy of Obama

Sri Lankan Muslims beat an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama during a protest rally against the allied forces' air strike in Libya, in Colombo, Sr

AP via Yahoo! News - Mar 25 05:39am

Sri Lankan Muslims beat and stamp on an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama during a protest rally against the allied forces' air strike in Libya, i

AP via Yahoo! News - Mar 25 04:25am

Sri Lankan Muslims burn an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama during a protest rally against the allied forces' air strike in Libya, in Colombo, Sr

AP via Yahoo! News

Senate GOP Demand Balanced Budget Amendment for Raising Debt Ceiling

"Senate Republicans are preparing to tell President Obama that they want a Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA) to the Constitution passed in Congress in exchange for raising the statuary debt ceiling above $14.2 trillion.

“My hope is that we would force a vote on a Balanced Budget Amendment as a condition to voting on the debt ceiling,” Sen. John Cornyn (R.-Tex.) told HUMAN EVENTS. “By next week, or shortly thereafter, we will have all 47 Republicans unified behind the effort, and then begin to reach out to our Democratic colleagues.”

A BBA would force the federal government to balance the federal spending to incoming revenue each year and cap spending at 18% of the gross domestic product (GDP). For the current Fiscal Year (FY 2011), the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that government spending will be $1.4 trillion more than revenue and account for almost 25% of the GDP."

General Wesley Clark on taking out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somali, Sudan, Iran

Patriot Post

"We don't know whether the current U.S. president is mindful of what he is uttering, or if he is unconscious and confused." --Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei

===============================================================

U.S. General Wesley Clark (Ret.), explains that the Bush Administration planned to take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Iran (2007 up to 2012)

General Wesley Clark, U.S. Army (ret) — Former Commanding General of U.S. European Command, which included all American military activities in the 89 countries and territories of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Additionally, Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), which granted him overall command of NATO military forces in Europe 1997 – 2001. Awarded Bronze Star, Silver Star, and Purple Heart for his service in Viet Nam and numerous subsequent medals and citations. Graduated valedictorian of his class at West Point. * Video interview ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos 3/5/06:

“I think when you look at this country, right now, we need a 2-party system that works. We need Congress to do its job. We need real investigation of some of the abuses of authority that are apparently going on at the Executive branch. … We’ve never finished the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intelligence information it had. The evidence seems pretty clear to me. I’ve seen that for a long time.”

Naked Aggression: 'Libya assault planned months ahead'