Cartoons on Jesus and slavery


Continuing on my earlier post, I dug up some images I used to use in my first year European history course one of the themes of which was slavery. It is clear that some Christian sects in Britain and the US were adamantly opposed to slavery for good and just reasons, but at the time they were considered "mad" by the mainstream Christian groups and were ostracized and even arrested for their abolitionist activities. The fact that slavery was enshrined in the US constitution as a "compromise" between the slave owning south and the north should be a source of undying shame to Christian and freedom loving Americans. But it is largely a taboo subject for those who believe in the onward march of God's manifest destiny for America. This is what the Islamists should be having "cartoon competitions" about - not the Holocaust.
Here is an illustration widely used by anti-slavery advocates in the 1820s against the slave trade in which Protestant America and Catholic France actively participated:

Here is an illustration from Voltaire's satirical novel "Candide" which poked more holes in European hypocrisy 250 years ago than anything which could be presently attempted in the Islamic world today. Seeing a runaway slave with an amputated foot Candide asks if this "is the price of sugar in Europe"?



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Posted: Mon - February 13, 2006 at 09:14 PM        

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