The Penn's Grove record., 1923-08-17
SLAVERY FIRST DIVIDED
CHURCHES THEN THE NATION
North and South MethOdists Expect
Reunion In 1924

Church South which seeded in 1874,
which vas seventeen years before the
eleven Southern States seeded from
the Union. To study how the slavery of
the Negro brought from Africa led to
the growth Of the moral issue had to
be settled by a bloody war may be
interesting.
The Southerner points to the fact
that no African has developed into a
world leader in agriculture, science,
art nor literature. Bringing tie black
man to America and putting him
under AnglO-SaXon Christian civiiiza-
ton gave him an opportunity to gain
intelligence under Christian civiliza-
ton and as each generation devel-
oped they become more competent to
accept the Announcements in agTicul-
ture, industry, arts and sciences as
first thought out by the white man.
If they had not been brought under
An~glo-SaXon civilization they would
have remained in Ignorance and II
developed in Africa.
While they We're owned by their
master like a horse and OK to do
manual labor, yet they were cared for
because they were more valuable. II
a mar has a fine horse worth $500 or
1000 he does not abuse it, but takes
the best of care of it, by giving them
wholesome food. sufficient clothing
and shelter to keep them in condition
to be fit to labor.
Some think the wives of anti-bel-
lum Southern planters with many
slaves led a life of idleness. She was
the head of the domestic side of the
plantation life. Not only did she
supervise the homework of the man
sion, but she had to look after the
servants quarters. As for the slaves,
their food. clothing and health We're
under her care and she had to teach
them how to do it and see that it was
done.
George Washington married Martha
Curtis, the richest widow in the Col
onies with a plantation of 1000 acres
or more and more than a hundred
Negro slaves. When a foreign diplo-
mat visited Mt. Vernon he saw Martha
Washington superintend the carding
and spinning the wool cut from the
sleeps back by black men whom George
Washington superintendent. He saw
Martha Washington experimenting
several black girls, "A to IS years old.
showing them how to knit socks for
all on the plantation.
However, slavery became a moral
issue as well as an economic issue be
fore the Revolution.
Jefferson Would Have Freed Slaves
Thomas Jefferson in his first draft
of the Declaration of independence
wrote:
1--WE hold that all men are created
equal [and independent
Among the charges against King
George III of England he wrote this;
He has melted reasonable insur-
reetion of our fellow citizens with the
allurment of forfeiture and confisca-
ton of property. He has waged cruel
war against human nature itself, vio-
lating its most sacred rights of life
and liberty in the persons OF distant
people who never offended him. cap
turing and carrying them into slavery
in another hemisphere, or to incur
miserable death in their transpolta-
ton thither. This piratical warfare.
the opprObrium of infidel powers. is
the warfare of the Christian King of
Great Britain, determined to keep
a market where MEN should be
bought and sold, he has prostituted his
negative for suppressing every legis-
latiye attempt to prohibit or to re-
this eXecTable commerce, de-
termining to keep open a market
where MEN should be bought and
sold; and that this assemblage of
horrors might want no fact Of dis
tinguished die, he is now exciting
those very people to rise in arms
among us, and to purchase that liberty
of which he has deprived them by muir
the people upon whom he also
obtTuded them; thus paying off for
mer crimes committed against the
liberties Of n people, with crimes
he urges them to commit
against the lives of anotherI.
1t will be noticed chat land indie
pendent and also the above para
graph are in braces.
In writing this We have before us
copy Of this first draft by Jefferson
II his hand writing. These words and
i'm what We're cut out by
he Continental Congress. 1t will be
zen that he declared the black slaves
o be MEN in capital letters; and in
DEPENDENT If retained, would nave
made the Continental Congress de-
lare the slaves to be entitled to their
freedom.
So YOU see that Thomas jefferson,
he father of American Democracy.
included the black man.
The founders of our Nation recog-
lized the moral wrong Of the traffic
n the ignorant black man and named
he date, 1903, in the L. S. Constitu-
ion when the importation Of slaves
end.
John Wesley Great Moral Reformer
John Wesley, the founder of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, opposed
the evil of slavery and denounced the
trade as that eXecrable sum of
all villainies.'
Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury,
the first Methodist Episcopal Bishops
in America, made Bishops at the first
NJ. f. Conference, in Baltimore, in
1884, preached against slavery.
1t was put in the first Methodist
discipline that NJ slave holder in a
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