Rev. Thornton Stringfellow: The 19th-Century Pastor Who Justified Slavery in the Name of Jesus

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Rev. Thornton Stringfellow was the pastor of Stevensburg Baptist Church in Culpeper County, Virginia, and one of the most notorious defenders of slavery in antebellum America. While he also promoted Sunday Schools, and domestic missions, his enduring legacy is far darker: he used Christianity to defend the chains that bound Africans. Born on March 6, […]
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