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In the whole "Make the South the North and Vice Versa" in terms of religion thread, I suggested that based on some reading I did a while back, there were many anti-slavery Baptists whose views were not widely accepted in the antebellum South but there were pro-slavery Baptists who were.

So how can we make it so the Baptist churches, rather than being widespread in the South per OTL, remain anti-slavery and are consequently restricted to the slaves and poor whites when they're not driven out entirely? Bonus points if most of the South reacts to that by viewing the Baptist churches--and ultimately Christianity itself--as a slave religion.

(I imagine they'd remain Episcopalian and Presbyterian for longer, but if their attitudes harden, it might become very nominal.)

Making things go as far as the world of the Draka where the master class becomes overtly atheist and Christianity is viewed as something suspicious and subversive might be tricky in the 18th/19th Century U.S., but if the POD goes back to the Great Awakening(s), that might be surprisingly doable.
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