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...</span></font><br><br><h2>Doug Wilson and slavery
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<p> 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 <span style="color: black; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">more</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span>accusation: plagiarism.
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<p> 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.
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<p> 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.
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<p> 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.
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<p> 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."
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<p> 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 <span style="color: black; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">more</span>
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."
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<p> 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.
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<em>—Mark Bergin</em>
</p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br><br>Juanita Flores<br>Advocate for the Truth from Jesus