Henry Highland Garnett, NY Presbyterian minister, summarizes slavery to Congress. It is theft, pollution of the innocent, incest, murder, blasphemy, defiance of the laws of God. It descecrates the family in mulitple ways. It feeds prejudice.
Today, we have many people seeking to rehabilitate the reputation of slavery, who also champion “family values”.
How can you seek out wickedness in your life and speak out for those abused by it?
I want to ask Mary Beard that how people of antiquity endured the resign of a mad emperor in the crazier times of the Roman Empire.