Why did slavery flourish in the Bible Belt?

Did ''real'' Christians ignore the atrocities in much the same way ''real'' Christians voted Hitler into power?

鈥淚n the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.鈥? Martin Luther King, Jr..

鈥淎ll that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people do nothing.鈥? British statesman Edmund Burke

鈥淚ndifference in the face of evil is complicity with evil.鈥?br>

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out鈥?br> because I was not a communist;

Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out鈥?br> because I was not a socialist;

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out鈥?br> because I was not a trade unionist;

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out鈥?br> because I was not a Jew;

Then they came for me-- and there was no one left to speak out for me.

-Pastor Martin Niem枚ller, 1945

Who speaks out for the people of Darfur?

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Why did slavery flourish in the Bible Belt?abtuvurys 2005

Slavery didn't flourish in the deep south because if Christianity, although many Christians used the Bible as a justification for what they did.

It flourished because the south's economy was dependent on cotton, and farmers thought they needed slaves to harvest said cotton.

At the time slavery was prominent in the US there wasn't a 'Bible Belt' so to speak. Most everyone in the US around that time were fundamentalist Christians.