"When 19th-century British missionaries arrived in the Caribbean to convert enslaved Africans, they came armed with a heavily edited version of the Bible. Any passage that might incite rebellion was removed; gone, for instance, were references to the exodus of enslaved Israelites from Egypt. Today, just three copies of the so-called “Slave Bible” are known to exist."
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Brigit Katz, "Heavily Abridged ‘Slave Bible’ Removed Passages That Might Encourage Uprisings", Smithsonian.com, (January 4, 2019)
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