Lisa Sharon Harper Who benefits from this law? But the law erected barriers to Fortune and her daughters marrying any man, Black or White. White men who chose to marry any of the Game/Fortune women would be indentured…
Lisa Sharon Harper The church itself became the primary auction block for slavery The new law protected White women and their children from slavery by removing the financial impetus for their enslavement. They would be indentured to the local parish, not enslaved by…
Lisa Sharon Harper Any attempt to repair what race broke in our nation must contend with what race broke in our faith. The varying perceptions of the Christian story divided our nation in antebellum times into two main camps: those who reconciled slavery and those who opposed slavery, both based on biblical…
