Book Review
The book: Southern Slavery: As It Was by Douglas Wilson and Steve Wilkins
Sample reviews at Amazon.com:
"A Reader": "In this short pamphlet, Christian reconstructionist Doug Wilson and neo-Confederate leader Steve Wilkins claim to set the historical record straight on African-American slavery. In reading this hackneyed work - full of factual misrepresentations, distortions, and outright lies - one is never quite certain whether to laugh hysterically or to vomit from their outrageous claims and paranoid jeremiads. One learns, amongst other things, that the south is God's promised land, racial slavery is biblically-sanctioned and humane, African-Americans enjoy being enslaved, masters rarely indulged in sexual exploitation, the south was a harmonious multi-racial community, and that, by defending slavery, the Confederacy was really defending the word of Jesus. As if this weren't risible enough, the authors then go on to say that slave emancipation has somehow led to sodomy, abortion, feminism, male effeminacy, and a host of other perceived evils in current US society - while all along `liberal' academics have conspired to slander the US south and to keep these blissful 'truths' of slavery from the public. Phew! Needless to say, their work is really nothing more than hate speech masquerading as religious commentary, and this little book has actually generated some public controversy in Oregon and northern Idaho in recent years. Whatever their personal beliefs may be, Wilson and Wilkins have certainly written a racist book skillfully marketed to readers sympathetic to movements like neo-Confederatism, the KKK, the Church of the Creator, Christian Identity, and the Aryan nations. If you aren't into deeply paranoid, hallucinatory, and phobic rantings from the extreme racist right, this book might not be for you."
From "Gen. J.C. Christian, patriot": "That's a question many of us good, God-fearing Christians ask ourselves many times a day. Douglas Wilson has the answer. Jesus would buy and sell his neighbors. It's refreshing to see someone like Wilson stand up and fight for a time-honored moral value like slavery. I hope that more people will do the same. Certainly, the results of the last election suggest that a truly conservative Christianity is back in vogue. We have political capital. We should use it to put people in chains. Then, pehaps we can bring back genocide too. It'll be just like old times."
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