Out of the first 11 President to serve in the 19th Century only John Adams and his son John Quincy beleieved in God endowed every men of every race and creed with equal rights and neither ever owned  another human being.

Other Presidents who to owned slaves included Andrew Johnson, Ulyesses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes and Benjamin Harrison. 

Virtually, all of the Protestant Pastors south of the Mason Dixon Line believed in the supremacy of the white Race.

In the 1840s, the three largest Protestant denominations in the United States—the Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians became fractured over the issue of slavery.

In the 19th century, Christian abolitionism was driven by several distinct religious groups. The Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) led the movement, followed closely by Congregationalists, Unitarians.

The Catholic Church's opposition to slavery in the 19th century was complex. While the Vatican condemned the trans-Atlantic slave trade early in the century, it took decades for the Church to officially and absolutely condemn the institution of slavery itself

It was the white protestant men that created the Ku Klux Klan. It was the Christian Pastor that taight their congregations that  slavery was ordained by God and that the black race was created to serve.the whi te r ace.