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Title: Black & Tan

Subtitle: A Collection of Essays and Excursions on Slavery, Culture War, and Scripture in America

Author: Douglas Wilson

Narrator: Aaron Wells

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-15-18

Publisher: Canon Press

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Even though America is fiercely divided between the left and the right and protests are becoming increasingly violent, both sides of the political aisle remain committed to secularism and increasingly to looser standards of sexual propriety.

If we want to understand contemporary American culture wars, we must first come to grips with the culture wars of the 19th century. In this book, Douglas Wilson explains how our nation's failure to remove slavery in a biblical fashion has led us to many of the quagmires we find ourselves in and until we grapple with issues like racism, hate speech, and the biblical position on slavery, we will continue to repeat the same mistakes our ancestors did.

This collection of essays lays out the answers from a view unafraid of historic, biblical orthodoxy, as well as addressing some of the controversies surrounding the previous edition of the book.

Members Reviews:

Kindle Edition: Dozens, if not Hundreds of OCR Errors

I haven't read this yet, but the number of OCR errors is extremely distracting. Yes, I only paid 99 cents for it, but it's the principle. So, 1 star is totally based on technical issues. Will revise rating when I have the temperament to slog through the errors.

Accurate book, but apparently often misunderstood. One of the best on the topic

We are often faced with a false choice: Does the Bible support slavery or not? If we say no, then we can be accused of being selective in our application of the Bible because there are some passages that seem to support the concept. If we say yes, then we are horrible racist people and the Bible is a racist book. Some choice! If the Bible was wrong about slavery, then maybe it is wrong about homosexuality too!

Wilson points out that the Bible does not see slavery as evil in and of itself and that godly people from Abraham to Philemon could own slaves provided that they treated them in a biblical way. He posits that some Southern slave owners may have treated their slaves in a biblical way. The Bible does not demand immediate emancipation.

If we are not careful, we may end up being "more righteous" than the Bible and give the impression that the Bible is wrong on slavery or does not really mean what it says. Wilson roundly condemns racism and is glad that slavery is gone in the US. His contention is that the overreaching federal government that freed the slaves is also the overreaching federal government that gave us Roe v. Wade so in the long run, we are not better off.

Wilson's primary concern is not to defend the south or slavery, but to defend what the Bible says about slavery and show how it could have applied to the South had anyone been interested in doing so. Mark Noll makes some of the same points in his less controversial book The Civil War as a Theological Crisis.

Doug Wilson's Confession from a Paleo-Confederate

Everyone kept telling me Doug Wilson supports slavery and they pointed to a book which he wrote over a decade ago, Slavery As It Was (there was a counterpoint written by two professors from Idaho University, Slavery As It Wasn't). That book is out of print because of major citation errors by his co-author.