2007-08-21 12:30:01 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Started it and used the Bible as an explanation of why it should be kept.
2007-08-21 12:38:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Uh no. Several comprehensive books have been published recently on the origins of modern slavery (namely, Hugh Thomas' The Slave Trade and Robin Blackburn's The Making Of New World Slavery). What these records show is that the modern slave trade flourished in the early middle ages, as early as 869, especially between Muslim traders and western African kingdoms. Christians took over in black Africa, though. The first ones were the Portuguese, who, applying an idea that originally developed in Italian seatrading cities, and often using Italian venture capital, started exploiting sub-Saharan slaves in the 1440s to support the economy of the sugar plantations (mainly for their own African colonies of Sao Tome and Madeira).
2007-08-21 19:43:46 · answer #2 · answered by thundercatt9 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I heard someone say that on CBS Sunday morning this past weekend, that is taking credit for ending slavery. Yet I am sure any historian could tell you about how slavery was rationalized using biblical text, and most (if not nearly all) slave owners were church going Christians.
2007-08-21 19:42:14 · answer #3 · answered by Quimby 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Slavery has been around for much longer than Christianity. Africa regularly practiced slavery. The Europeans started by simply using a commodity already available in Africa. When they figured out how cheaply they could aquire slaves, colonial slavery became particularly brutish. While these Europeans were Christians, they didn't buy slaves in the name of Christianity...they did it because it made economic sense to them.
2007-08-21 19:38:52 · answer #4 · answered by Nightwind 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
THE SLAVE TRADE IN AMERICA STARTED WHEN A BRITISH SLAVER BROUGHT A LOAD OF SLAVES TO VIRGINIA ABOUT 1630AD. THE SETTLERS IN JAMESTOWN WERE GROWING TOBACCO WHICH IS A VERY LABOR INTENSIVE CROP AND THEY SAW THE ***** AS A SELF PROPAGATING SOURCE OF LABOR AND BOUGHT THEM. AND USED THEM ALONGSIDE THE INDENTURED SLAVES THEY WERE RECEIVING FROM BRITAIN. THUS THE SLAVE TRADE WAS BEGUN IN AMERICA. IT HAS EXISTED IN THE WORLD SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME. RECORDED TIME THAT IS.
2007-08-21 19:45:54 · answer #5 · answered by Loren S 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No way. the african slave trade predated Jesus Christ by many Centuries
2007-08-21 19:52:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No that would be the Jews who owned all of the slave ships.
2007-08-21 19:50:42 · answer #7 · answered by LaptopJesus 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Abraham Lincoln abolished it..actually it was kinda Christian of him wasn't it?
2007-08-21 19:37:59 · answer #8 · answered by meister 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Christian abolished it and enslaved them to a new form religion
2007-08-21 19:42:24 · answer #9 · answered by Huzur 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No, they didn't start it. Some Christians did, however, continue it.
The Africans sold each other into slavery.
2007-08-21 19:35:37 · answer #10 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 6⤊ 2⤋