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In reading accounts of American slavery, I constantly run across instances where masters read to their slaves from the Bible, including from the Old Testament--did anybody ever suggest that this practice, particularly reading "Exodus" to slaves might be a bad idea?

by /u/lawanddisorder in /r/AskHistorians

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