This Rare Version Of The Bible Reveals An Uncomfortable Truth
Black History Year
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🗓️ 8 January 2024
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We already know that when it comes to history, the records have been whitewashed and edited with white supremacy in mind. But the trickery didn’t stop with history. White supremacists also messed with the Bible – right in front of our faces!
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| 0:00.0 | We already know that when it comes to history, the records have been whitewashed and edited with white supremacy in mind. |
| 0:07.0 | But the trickery didn't stop with history. |
| 0:10.0 | White supremacists also mess with the Bible right in front of our faces. |
| 0:16.0 | This is two-minute black history, What You Didn't Learn in School. |
| 0:35.6 | Today, only three original copies of this version of the Bible exist, but there is one undeniable truth. This so-called slave Bible was created to indoctrinate and oppress |
| 0:41.8 | enslaved black people. How did white missionaries manage to do this? |
| 0:51.3 | In 1807, English missionaries went to the British West Indies to convert enslaved people |
| 0:58.8 | to Christianity. Reverend Bill B. Portius, Bishop of London, instructed missionaries to shorten |
| 1:07.2 | prayers and to select scriptures that encouraged enslaved people to obey their masters. |
| 1:13.6 | But of course, that wasn't hard to do given one important fact about the way Europeans manipulated the Bible. |
| 1:22.6 | They edited the Bible. |
| 1:25.6 | Heavily. Of the 1,189 chapters in the Bible, |
| 1:32.0 | only 232 remained. |
| 1:35.9 | Specifically, any mentions of equality or freedom |
| 1:40.3 | were removed. |
| 1:42.3 | And that's not all. |
| 1:52.0 | They also used ideas of anti-blackness and white superiority to inform the way they translated the Bible. |
| 1:53.2 | The English created the King James version of the Bible, just as they did in all their |
| 1:59.8 | literature and art. |
| 2:01.8 | The slave Bible was an attempt to control black people by leaving out anything that might |
| 2:07.3 | inspire ideas of liberation in our people. |
| 2:11.6 | There's an unholy alliance between lies and omissions from history and religion. And recognizing this truth is crucial |
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