The Slave Bible exhibit at the Museum of the Bible in Washington features a version of the holy book that excluded major portions of the Old and New Testaments. Left, this Slave Bible, one of three known in existence worldwide, was published in the early 1800s and is on loan to the museum from Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn.
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Rare ‘Slave Bible’ exhibition offers glimpse of Christianity’s role in slavery
On display on the ground floor of the Museum of the Bible is a lone volume that stands out from the many versions of the Bible shown in the building devoted to the holy book. It’s a small set of Scriptures whose title page reads “Parts of the Holy Bible, selected for the use of the Negro Slaves, in the British West-India Islands.”
