Bible extracts, used alongside a primary source, give important understanding of the ideological pressures operating in the period. However, the context of the source's production is in many ways hard to pinpoint. ... This casts shadows upon the sources agenda and reliability, compounded by the application of the Biblical system of slavery being anachronistic and limited, but reveals the power of literal application of the Bible as ideological justification for slavery in its ideas of superiority and inferiority. ... Source material is lacking context of the slave experience and thus evid...

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• Approx Pages: 4
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate