Episode 21 – Show Notes

This is our third and last episode from our Summer of Slavery, after looking at slavery in the Old and then New Testaments in the first two episodes, here we got going on the impact of all this on Church History. That is one of Steve Tomkins’ areas of expertise, especially the Abolition movement in Britain and its colonies.

First off we needed to cover Frances’ last Myth, no.10: “Christianity Was the Source of the Idea That All People Shared a Common Humanity and This Was What Ultimately Led To the Abolition of Slavery”. What does Steve make of that?

We also had a forlorn attempt at covering things sequentially, starting with the early Fathers. See these links we used:

The early Fathers on punishing slaves

http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1015-87582016000200014

Christian slave trade in the medieval Mediterranean

https://www.historytoday.com/justifying-slavery

Of course, the British slave trade was discussed with loads of input from Steve: its origin, early reactions, development and the debates around Abolition. Things were rather different in the more Bible-focussed Southern States. See this essay, a Southern defence of slavery:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xUI0n53tnl5oPKFQKlOG9HSbQcDM91K_/view?usp=sharing

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