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(6,088 posts)NC was mostly Moravian, Methodist, Quaker, etc. New Covenant groups. While the North was debating whether Blacks had souls, they were worshiping with whites in the same churches (balconies only after Dred Scott). Split with northern Methodist because North wanted to send blacks back to Africa.
A freed slave born in NC was a natural born citizen, could vote until 1830's, had all other rights after that. He could not move to many Northern states.
The problem with fundamentalists Christians began with the Roman Catholic Church mixing in the Law given through Moses, which applies only to Jews. Calvin made it all worse.
Those in New England used the most hateful religious teachings to hide that the slave trade was centered in Rhode Island, produced the old wealth from NYC to Boston, built the mills that required slave cotton, and created the endowments for the Ivy League.
BTW If you do not allow for an outside "creator" of the universe, the alternative under the big bang theory is "Before time began, there was nothing, and for no reason it exploded."