All contended that true Christianity focused on the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” White Christianity did not even come close to fulfilling that principle. “Are these people Christians who made these laws which are robbing us of our inheritance and reducing us to slavery?” a character asked in Frances Harper’s novel Iola Leroy. “If this is Christianity I hate it and despise it. Would the most cruel heathen do worse?”[34]
