A self-confessed “secular Jew,” who won a Nobel Prize for his research into slavery, discovered Christians ended it.
“Here I was, a professor in some of America’s leading universities and I had no idea that Christians had [ended slavery].” — Robert W. Fogel
I was a teaching assistant for Professor Robert W. Fogel at the University of Chicago. He tasked me with presenting his findings on slavery. As we celebrate the end of slavery, let’s not forget who ended it. Christians did. (Click on link below.)
“Today some Christian intellectuals scold the church for being complicit in slavery. They’re right, of course. But only half right. . . . The question is not who enabled slavery. Everyone did. The questions is . . . who stopped it? Today, many Christians don’t know enough of their heritage to answer that question.”
In an age when people want to shame Christians, be encouraged with the great good the gospel has created in the world as proved by a Nobel-prizing winner. Read this brief (c. 1,400 words) article: Christians Ended Slavery. (<click on link)
Please recommend this article to a skeptic or to anyone interested in the story of Juneteenth:
“A secular Jew makes a surprising discovery about Christians and American slavery,” Acton Commentary, link above.
Look for my new article on “Seven Christian Men or Movements Who Helped End Slavery in America” in The Christian Post this Monday.
