How did the defense of slavery evolve?

Answer 1

The defense of slavery has always been the same - that one group is God's "chosen people" and the others exist to serve them.

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Answer 2

How did the defense of slavery evolve?

Slavery does not evolve. Only slavery figure evolve.

Past to present, Slavery definition will never evolve. The present figure is estimated that there are today 12.3 million people in the world who are subject to slavery. forced labor, sex trade, inheritable property, child labor, fasle imprisonment, etc.

Why does the Bible not speak out strongly against slavery?

The Bible often approaches issues like slavery from the inside-out.

God reforms his soul, he will realize that enslaving another human being is wrong. A person who has truly experienced God’s grace will in turn be gracious towards others. That would be the Bible’s prescription for ending slavery.

Answer 3

The justification of slavery has been around for as long as slavery has been around.

The rationalization of this inhuman practice would be essential for anyone to live with it on a day to day basis.

As arguments against slavery developed and evolved I would guess the defense of slavery evolved to find new ways to justify it.

So the defense of slavery probably evolved along the same time line as the effort to abolish it.

With love in Christ.

Answer 4

The role of Slavery is long and complicated. The Bible indicates that the Israelites were slaves. Later they themselves had slaves. In an agririan society slaves were often needed to do menial tasks.

The Bible also gives rules how to treat slaves. In short they were to be respected.

This attitude changed over the centuries.

Finally William Wilberforce, a devout Christian, lobbied long and hard to abolish slavery in England. This was in the early 1800's. After that Lincoln abolished slavery in the USA.

Interesting to note: There was never Slavery in Canada. Many American Slaves used a number of "Safe Houses" to get to Canada. That string of houses was called the "Underground Railway"

Answer 5

I believe some people claimed that black people were the children of Ham, one of Noah's sons. He did something bad and God condemned his children to be servants forever. I think that is one of the arguments, I may be wrong.