Do you think slavery is a 'Christian' practice?
As Thomas Sowell pointed out, it was a universal practice at the time of this country’s founding. It was all over the world. Instant freedom for slaves was only possible through the filter of learning the modern ways of agriculture. Even then there were terrible shortfalls of knowledge for struggling freedmen. As Jubal Early said, “What a gentle institution slavery must have been to have so well prepared the Negro for the ballot box.” At the time the majority of South Carolina’s state house was made up of Blacks.