A megachurch pastor from Idaho argues in his new book that the abolitionist movement was wrong, and the Civil War should never happened, because if Southern slave-owners had been allowed to implement the Bible's teachings on slavery, then a more humane transition would have taken place through "gospel gradualism."

Grimké's conviction that abolition was, as she put it, a "cause worth dying for" led her into the anti-slavery movement. But her broader moral vision led her to develop views too radical for most of her fellow abolitionists.

It's not a newspaper or a history book or a science book. But it is a book that lies at the heart of western culture, and it still has a claim on us, whether we believe in it or not.

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The International Muslim Abolitionist Movement believes that true compliance to Muhammad's example demands that slavery in all its evil forms must come to an end, and Muslims must make that happen today.

Slavery's depravity is so obvious to us today that it obscures the collective mental conversion required to achieve this bit of moral clarity. And religion is often cast an impediment to slavery's stigmatization.

Slavery stands as the single most contested issue in the history of biblical interpretation in the United States. What did slavery mean in the biblical world, and how did biblical authors respond to it?

We can evade the truth if we like, but all of us, without exception, highlight certain parts of the Bible at the expense of others.