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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (91098)1/11/2005 9:00:05 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
I wish fewer really religious people had come to America, because I think we are still living with the after-effects.

I think you have things backwards. The anti-slavery movement in the US and Great Britain was entirely religiously-motivated. A few years ago, I did some historical research on my home county in IL and found the early Baptist settlers there (from No. Carolina) were staunchly anti-slavery and on several occasions purchased slaves from neighboring states to set them free. At least one member of the Baptist church there maintained a way station on the Underground Railway on his farm.

In addition, it was religious figures like Roger Williams and William Penn who were the first to insist that land should be acquired by purchase from the Indians rather than by conquest.
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