A display near the entrance to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center's new exhibition, "Faith and (in)Justice," features a bible once handed out by Christian plantation owners to slaves. A number of passages mentioning freedom have been excised from the book — an effort to keep the holy text from inspiring slaves to seek their own liberty.

"It's what people choose to do with their religions," Freedom Center Exhibit Content Director Katie Stockdale says. "These enslavers were trying to convert enslaved people to Christianity. But they were also realizing there were verses in the Bible that were against 'manstealing,' which is what they were doing."

Next to it, there's a display of the prominent Christian leaders who risked their lives and livelihoods around the same time as the

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