Black & Tan: A collection of Essays and Excursions on Slavery, Culture War, and Scripture in America (Biblia.com)

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If we want to understand contemporary American culture wars, we must first come to grips with the culture wars of the nineteenth century. That our nation did not remove slavery in a biblical way helps explain many of our contemporary social evils. But who is qualified to talk about such things? What is a biblical view of racism? Why do the biblical answers to such questions so infuriate the...

God is never capricious or arbitrary in His judgments, this outpouring of wrath was just and righteous in every respect. Understanding the outcome of the war as a judgment from God was common among pious Southerners at the time. This understanding in no way vindicated the sins of the North, for God had once used the wickedness of Assyria to humiliate a backslidden Israel. Our sovereign God draws straight with crooked lines. This was a lesson that Habbakuk had to learn, and Dabney sorrowfully repeated

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