Masters and slaves

While reading one of my sources from my thesis Masters and slaves: In the house of the lord which was edited by JohnB. Boles, There is a chapter starting at pg 99 called Planters and slave religion in the deep south. So far i have found it very informative as it includes, the way that slaves took christianity and religion as a major part of their culture, it talks about the split of the northern and southern churches over freeing slaves, and  it talked about how slavery was used to help develop the relationship between masters and their slaves. It gave slaves a morality system, to obey their masters and be good slaves, which worked much better than just physically punishing the slaves. Their was some argument within the south over whether religion would make slaves more obedient or if it would encourage them to rebel. The chapter continues by talking about how Christianity was used to justify slavery,  Slavery in the south became a christian institution. For my futre blog posts I hope to review more of this book and some of my other sources.

source: Boles, J. B.(ED.)(1988).Masters & Slaves: In the House of the lord. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky.