Morris Jacob Raphall: The Rabbi Who Used the Bible to Justify the Enslavement of Africans
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In early 1861, as the United States moved toward civil war, a respected rabbi in New York shocked many Americans when he opened the Bible and argued that slavery was allowed by God. In a sermon that quickly spread across the country, Morris Jacob Raphall used scripture, including the story known as the Curse of […]
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