Firstly, Christian slaveholders truly believed that they were doing something that was “right” and that they were “helping” the slaves. Christian slaveholders were committed to the word of the Lord and they used religion and law to engrain it into people’s minds, “In 1667, the Virginia legislature felt compelled to pass a statute declaring that the baptism of slaves would not emancipate them… more carefully endeavour the propagation of Christianity by permitting slaves to be admitted to that sacrament .” This would be the first law to defend slavery in Anglo-America and it was enacted with the help of religion . Slavery would be justified through “the grounds that it brought Christianity to the ‘heathens’ (Slaves) ”. The slaves were people
