Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield on Slavery
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The Perceptions of Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield
Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield have been heroes for a while to people in the Reformed evangelical camp. Kyle J. Howard said, I am more confident in Martin Luther King Jr.'s conversion than I am of Jonathan Edwards andGeorge Whitfield. So let's survey these guys when it comes to slavery and race and so forth. But Whitfield put blacks on an equal spiritual plane with whites. He believed they were just as capable of salvation as their masters were.
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