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“Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight on a new, crucial question: how did antebellum Protestants parse capitalism? For anyone who seeks to understand the political economy of the antebellum era-or, indeed, the complex entanglement of Christianity and capitalism today-this book is critical. I, for one, am very grateful to Stewart Davenport for having written it.”

“We in Africa are always on the receiving end. We have had human slavery, political slavery, economic slavery and now religious slavery. We in the church are saying no. We are prepared to live by what God says, not what you say. Man shall not sleep with man, woman shall not sleep with woman.”

Men Humans Ends Political Church Religious Sleep Economic Slavery Prepared Live By Receiving Men Women Saying No Economic Slavery

Author:Peter Akinola

“All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree.”

Men Political Natural Justice Freedom Simple Liberty Degrees Slavery Restraint Maintenance

Book:No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard

Source: No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard

“I am against slavery simply because I dislike slaves.”

Political Freedom Slavery Slave Dislike

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.”

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Book:Church and State and Other Essays: Including Money; Man and Woman: Their Respective Functions; The Mother; A Second Supplement to the Kreutzer Sonata

Source: Church and State and Other Essays: Including Money; Man and Woman: Their Respective Functions; The Mother; A Second Supplement to the Kreutzer Sonata

“Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.”

Political Social Movement Slavery Inspired Radical Reform American History Minimum Minimum Wage Social Reform Social Movements Great Political Reform Movements Ending Slavery

Author:Carl Bernstein