Don Johnson

Perhaps the term “theological liberalism” had not yet been invented, but many of the arguments use the EXACT same wording, except replace negro/slave with woman/wife. It is really quite illuminating. The slave holders even pointed out that Eph 5-6 was one teaching unit and that if you “changed the plain meaning” of the verses on slaves, then next thing would be to “change the plain meaning” of the verses on wives. The unstated subtext was “Did the abolitionists really want uppity wives?’