Abstract
Middle Georgia Baptist church minutes from the last seven decades of slavery are filled with accusations of enslaved members' adulterous behaviour. These allegations were closely related to the domestic slave trade and the migration of planters to the Old Southwest. Forced relocations severed slaves' marital ties and required Baptist churches to confront the contradiction between biblical prescriptions regarding the permanence of marriage and the reality that the economics of southern slavery treated enslaved unions with callous disregard. Recognising the incongruity between scripture and fact, Middle Georgia Baptist churches made theological compromises that made them safe for southern slaveholders.
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