Southern Seminary Report on Slavery and Racism

rlvaughn · Dec 12, 2018

Report on Slavery and Racism in the History of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

In light of the burdens of history, some schools hasten to remove names, announce plans, and declare moral superiority. That is not what I intend to do, nor do I believe that to be what the Southern Baptist Convention or our Board of Trustees would have us to do.

We do not evaluate our Christian forebears from a position of our own moral innocence. Christians know that there is no such innocence. But we must judge, even as we will be judged, by the unchanging Word of God and the deposit of biblical truth.
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William H. Whitsitt enthusiastically supported the Democrats 1876 campaign to restore white rule in South Carolina. When Republican governor Daniel Chamberlain outlawed the white Democrats’ rifle clubs who pressed their campaign of intimidation and violence to prevent blacks from running for office or voting in the 1876 election, Whitsitt was dismayed.
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“Knowledge is power,” Whitsitt told his students in 1892. “The whites will rule in the South.” Whitsitt praised British society for its racial homogeneity: “The fortunate thing about the mixture of peoples on British soil is that they were of one color.”
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rlvaughn · Dec 17, 2018

President of the National African American Fellowship of the Southern Baptist Convention, Dr. Marshal L. Ausberry, Sr., Responds to SBTS Report on Slavery & Racism

The history shows that the Seminary as an institution reflected the political and social culture of its time. It is perplexing how otherwise godly men could miss the mark so badly. But, when culture and politics have such an unmerited influence, the reaping is the result of what has been sewn. Southern Seminary is not by herself, many institutions of that era were swimming in the same river of prejudice, racism, and elitism cloaked in the sheets of the idea of manifest destiny.
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