It’s not the original Bible but the Slave Bible created in the Caribbean that was the real problem. And it wasn’t the fact that the Slave Bible had edited out all the references to slavery and included a very limited part of the original Bible. It was the fact that the slave Bible was used as a weapon of ethnic cleansing by the masters. The masters had much to fear, it was a fear they could not easily illuminate but could mitigate. The fear stemmed not from the color of the skin of the black Africans but from the fact that the masters buying and selling human beings and making them work through physical pain and punishment, very demanding jobs and treacherous conditions. The masters knew slavery was morally wrong, otherwise they would not be changing slaves down. Thus the slave Bible was a solution because it eliminated the belief structures of the Africans who had brought with them unknown religious ideas, pantheistic or monotheistic or otherwise. These religious beliefs are dangerous as they act as motivation for one to overthrow an unknown force or enemy. Additionally the languages that African spoke were different, meaning they could plan for rebellion, murder or escape through these languages at the masters no access to it didn’t understand. These unknown factors were eliminated or mitigated through the slave Bible which was used as a method to eliminate the backgrounds and beliefs and language systems of the Africans. The Africans then had to use the language and beliefs of the masters who had control of those systems thought. They were just easier to control since they became absorbed into unknown structure of control. The Uyghurs in Western China are undergoing this exact type of ethnic cleansing today, belief and language eradication, in “re-education” camps. Sometimes, the chains in the mind are much stronger than the chains on one’s feet.