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Not that there wasn't plenty of slaver religious sentiment going on too (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Explanation: In the US Civil War, fought over the secessionist South's insistence on maintaining chattel slavery for Black folk, one of the major anti-slavery strains was explicitly religious, based on the idea that we were all children of the Christian God and thus inherently equals - making slavery, and especially racially-based slavery, an abomination.

They made some good tunes with that in mind.