First Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Bluffton is now a new historic marker

First Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Bluffton is now a new historic marker

The church originally provided a place of worship for former slaves that would last for generations.

Religion's Role in the Abolition of Slavery by Tomer Persico

The oldest known records of slavery come from Mesopotamia some five thousand years ago. Then Egypt. Then China. Then the Bible of course, and then Greece and Rome. They continue for many centuries, presenting an ongoing, ubiquitous social institution., cultivated by humans everywhere, trophied by kings, excused by philosophers, meticulously documented by diligent clerks. Sadly, enslaving other humans has been one of the most common and universal…