... seventeenth century, used the work servant when they meant slave in our sense, and, indeed, white Southerners invariably used servant until 1865 and beyond. Slave entered the Southern vocabulary as a technical word in trade, law and politics. At the time that future president Thomas Jefferson was born ... , orderly, conscientious so in turn the plantation owners encouraged missionary activities among slaves. Slaves themselves found in Christianity a faith so strong and unrelenting that could give them hope in even a more than oppressive world. While Christianity has sometimes been called...

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