Jubilee Hope — Ellen White and the Politics of Racial Justice (Part I)

[spectrumbot]

When I was down in Egypt’s land, I heard my Savior was at hand, And the midnight-cry was sounding, And I wanted to be free, So I left my formal brethren To sound the Jubilee.[1]

---

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://spectrummagazine.org/news/2020/jubilee-hope-ellen-white-and-politics-racial-justice-part-i

[ABEN (Christopher)]

@spectrumbot

I saw the pious slave rise in triumph and victory, and shake off the chains that bound him, while his wicked master was in confusion

I don’t consider this as an anti-slavery statement. On the other hand, a pious slave would be happy to serve his master rather than wishing to be freed from his chains.

@spectrumbot

Slavery is “a sin of the darkest dye,”

Bible no where condemned slave-holding, instead we find admonitions to both the masters and their slaves how to treat each other in Christian charity. Ellen White was in no way the first to stand against slavery. We can find valuable insights, Bible based, from the book, ‘First things: a series of lectures on the great facts and moral lessons first revealed to mankind’, vol. 2, 1851 by Spring, Gardiner (1785-1873), pp. 351-380.
https://archive.org/details/firstthingsserie02spri/page/n5/mode/2up?q=slavery

[truthisfreedom]

@spectrumbot

Her prophetic analysis instead tracked closely with the abolitionist or radical Republicans such as Frederick Douglass who urged that “slavery and the rights of blacks must take precedence over other political questions

Hooray for the radical Republicans!!

@spectrumbot

Two years later, legal slavery came to end in the United States with the defeat of the Confederacy and the 13th Amendment to the Constitution

Hooray for the end of injustice to black people in America!!

Hooray for the end of slavery!!

[GeorgeTichy]

Though you didn’t indicate so, your post appears to me full of sarcasm. Am I right? Or are your remarks serious? Just chechin’ …

[truthisfreedom]

Hooray for truth!

Hooray for freedom!

Hooray for equal justice for all!

Hooray for all who do not resist arrest!

[Hischild (Henry Carroll Hills)]

@spectrumbot

slavery was not just a sin committed by individual Southern slave owners, it was a systemic evil embedded in the economic and political structure of the entire nation.

There is a commercial on to that drives that home. “My mom never had to go to food banks…They pay a slave wage…”

Today it is People getting folks to work for them for nothing to enrich themselves and the workers’ lives get harder and harder. Some have to work multiple jobs and do without.