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Raphael Warnock: “That's the lessons of the American Christian Slavocracy…”

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But we're going to let the state carry on in our name and do all kinds. So we already know the lessons of that. We don't have to go to Germany. That's the lessons of the American Christian Slavocracy also, which was built on the premise that we're enslaving human beings, but we're saving their souls. So it's all right. Matter of fact, we're doing them a favor. And so it's dangerous for people of faith, for people of moral courage who claim no faith tradition … (48:59–49:11)

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Asserts that American Christian Slavocracy justified slavery by claiming to save the souls of enslaved people.

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