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The desperate Southerners even blasphemed themselves by using the bible and the word of God to justify their bondage. The Southerners were so asinine as to quote the words of the Christian holy book to justify their enslavement of an entire race. The idea of "positive good" was wide spread among the slavery favoring whites. Supporters of this idea believed that the slave traders and owner were actually doing them a favor. They believed that by seizing the African Natives from their motherland they were rescuing them from a barbaric existence and a life of pagaen beliefs. The third religion-affiliated effort to save slavery in the South was the formation of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). The KKK is part of a long list of extremist groups that practice white supremacy. The KKK focused mainly on hatred of anyone who was not a white protestant; they justified this through their interpretation of God's word. Economic issues were also used
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