PRODIGAL — THE PODCAST / Episode 7: "The Last Chain"
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They edited the Bible.
In 1807, a version of the Bible was printed specifically to hand to enslaved people — with the Exodus story cut out and "slaves, obey your masters" left in. That wasn't an accident. It was engineering. In this episode, Don and Daysha trace the documented history of how a controlled version of Christianity was built to produce obedience — and how Black Americans immediately turned that same book into a language of liberation the moment they could read it for themselves.
But there's one chain from that system that never fully came off: the habit of…
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