How Slavery Affected the Family and Corrupted the Christian Faith

Rene’ Green

ENL 3110

4/12/2016

How Slavery affected the family and Corrupted the Christian Faith

In the beginning “God created man in his own image.” After God made man he also gave man a companion. She was called woman. Neither man nor woman was created to have control over another man or woman. God only gave dominion over the earth to his son Adam and that was soon taken away from Adam. After a while the “Family” was created. The family is a group of people who are related to each other. The family is a strong institution that is respected throughout the world it consist of spouses, parents, brothers, sisters, sons and/or daughters. Man has always been considered the head of the household. A very important part of the family. The purpose of this essay is to discuss how slavery made a negative division with the family of slaves and their descendants then and now and how slavery corrupted the Christian Faith.

The creation of man began the history time line of human beings. A “Human Being”- is considered a person. A person that is capable of having values, being able to conduct proper behavior, and the ability to live an intellectual life.

I agree with Lydia Child that states “In order to decide what is our duty concerning the Africans and their descendants, we must first clearly make up our minds whether they are, or are not, human beings – whether they have or have not, the same capacities for improvement as other men. (Child, 1833)

During the early 1800’s, man had been reduced from a human being to a chattel in the eyes of the beloved Christians society. We all know the history of “Slavery”. Slavery was the most brutal psychological war fare known to mankind.

We know how it destroyed the lives of many people and the horrific affect it had on the Family. Stripping fathers and mothers from their children. Separating the family bond that makes a man a man and a woman a woman. And the brutality that slaves endured; just because they were considered non-human