The plain truth is that white theologians, even those of the social gospel period, ignored the situation of oppression suffered by blacks and made few and superficial connections between their theology and the egregious evils of slavery and segregation. (religion-online.org)
If, as a body, they assume the intrinsic goodness of religious freedom and the intrinsic evil of slavery, perhaps that is because the development of Christian doctrine has rightly tended in that direction — and thus steered between dangers that are theological as well as political. (firstthings.com)
[I] t fictionally incarnates her firmest convictions about both race and religion... It enabled her to turn a racist icon into an ironic testament to the mystery of charity... This «artificial nigger» not only illumines the evident evils of slavery and discrimination but discloses the subtle grace inherent in suffering that can be redemptively borne because God in Christ has borne it himself. (firstthings.com)