[Salvavida]

Even if you found a plantation of slaves in your family line, better still, a merchant slave ship, that isn't your problem. You were not brought up in the context of that era and you made no decision, directly or indirectly, towards acquisition.

We should be boasting about ONE thing: Negro spirituals. Whites cared enough about their slaves that they taught them the Bible so that they could make a decision for Jesus Christ for all eternity. In doing so, it ushered in a new genre of worship music. Winning!

[oldvirginian]

“We should be boasting about ONE thing: Negro spirituals.”

At the start of the civil war it was illegal to teach a slave to read. General Thomas “Stone wall” Jackson broke that law every day.
His reasoning was very simple.
He wanted each and every one to be able to read the bible for themselves.
Until the day he died he helped raise money to buy bibles for slaves in Virginia.