How did Confederate General Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Jackson's religious views affect his attitude toward slaves and his approach to battle?
Cheripesque Caralamagua
Updated Apr 25, 2015
"Stonewall" Jackson, like virtually everyone else in the South, took slavery for granted. But he didn't think of slaves as property. He considered them friends, partly because some of his own relatives had been indentured servants. Although he wasn't an outstanding student himself (and was derisively called Tom Fool when he taught at the Virginia Military Institute), he established a Sunday School for slaves and taught them how to read (even though it wasn't exactly legal). Two of his Sunday School students asked Jackson to buy them, which he did. He acquired another slave and her two sons through marriage, and he took in an orphaned slave. Even in the heat of battle, Jackson found time to write a periodic check to support his Sunday School.
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