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>From World Magazine Archives

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Doug Wilson and slavery

Southern Slavery: As it Was, a booklet defending slavery as biblically
viable, has roused considerable controversy since its release in 1996.
Critics of co-authors Douglas Wilson and Steve Wilkins have added to their
content-driven charges of racism and shoddy history one more accusation:
plagiarism.

The text failed 24 times to attribute word-for-word quotations pulled from
the 1974 book Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery by
Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman. University of Washington
history professor Tracie McKenzie, who attends a Seattle-area church
connected to Mr. Wilson's Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, easily recognized
the stolen sections because he teaches on the work of Mr. Fogel and Mr.
Engerman.

Concerned with both plagiarism and the content of Southern Slavery, Mr.
McKenzie drafted a response pointing out what he saw as poor historical
conclusions and detailing the plagiarized sections.

After reviewing Mr. McKenzie's document, Mr. Wilson pulled Southern Slavery
from the shelves in 2003 with the intent of correcting attribution
oversights for a second edition. Now set for publication in the coming
months under the title Black and Tan, the 150-page new edition reduces
Southern Slavery to a single chapter and adds other essays on slavery,
culture war, and Scripture in America. Mr. Wilson told WORLD the original
thesis that slavery wasn't bad enough to justify violent abolitionism
remains prominent.

The absence of plagiarism may not quiet opposition. University of Idaho
philosophy professor Nick Gier collected the endorsements of 45 local
academics for a widely circulated flier condemning the plagiarism. Steve
Wilkins, pastor of Auburn Avenue Presbyterian Church in Monroe, La., admits
to authoring every plagiarized section: "It wasn't [Mr. Wilson's] doing. It
was my fault, not his fault."

Nevertheless, Mr. Wilson, who edited the booklet, has taken the brunt of the
criticism. The charges fuel an ongoing spat between Christ Church and the
Moscow community, a quarrel to which Mr. Wilson admits his blunt style has
contributed, but one he blames more heavily on community intolerance: "This
is the first issue where we deserve the lump on our head. There's no
question it was wrong and inappropriate."

Canon Press, a ministry of Christ Church and publisher of Southern Slavery,
issued a letter of apology to the publisher of Time on the Cross, and no
legal action appears imminent.

*—Mark Bergin*


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Juanita Flores
Advocate for the Truth from Jesus
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