As we approach Racial Justice Sunday, apologist Adam Coleman of Tru-ID looks at why all humans have intrinsic worth. He shares examples of abolitionists who took matters of justice into their own hands as well as those who opted for non-violence, trusting God to act on their behalf

Racism in Colonial America wasn’t just a matter of preference as in a dislike or even simply a hatred of African people. It wasn’t just a feeling of superiority among Europeans. Racism was actually more concrete than that. In America’s formative years, among the main justifications for slavery in the West were the widely held beliefs that Africans were not ‘human’, did not have souls or were, at best, like a race of children that needed to be cared for by the white ‘civilized’ races.

Intrinsic worth

It is on this point that we can see how Christianity played a dynamic role as a liberating factor in African American history. The conversion experiences for many African enslaved persons who accepted Christianity served to anchor their sense of worth… (Register to read the rest of the article)