How did Baptists in the southern US justify slavery as compatible with Christianity?
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The wikipedia article on [Slavery in the US](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States) states:
> Over the decades and with the growth of slavery throughout the South, Baptist and Methodist ministers gradually changed their messages to accommodate the institution. After 1830, white Southerners argued for the compatibility of Christianity and slavery, with a multitude of both Old and New Testament citations.
What verses, or other arguments, were made, particularly by Baptists at the time (to narrow the question), to support slavery, particularly as practices in the US, as an institution compatible with and/or condoned by Christianity?
I don't need an exhaustive list--I'm sure that would take tomes. An overview of the matter is sufficient.
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