History of Slavery and Why It Ended

[Weatherman2020]

Slavery is not unique. Since the dawn of recorded history mankind has practiced slavery. Whites did it to whites, blacks did it blacks, Indians did it to Indians, Asians did it Asians and every combination of all those combined did it to each other.

What is unique in the history of mankind is the abolition of slavery. And there is one thing in common that spawned the change. Christianity. Christianity forced the longest running practice to become despised in the civilized world.

 

[Sunni Man]

"The White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling

Take up the White Man’s burden—

Send forth the best ye breed—

Go send your sons to exile

To serve your captives' need

To wait in heavy harness

On fluttered folk and wild—

Your new-caught, sullen peoples,

Half devil and half child

Take up the White Man’s burden

In patience to abide

To veil the threat of terror

And check the show of pride;

By open speech and simple

An hundred times made plain

To seek another’s profit

And work another’s gain

Take up the White Man’s burden—

And reap his old reward:

The blame of those ye better

The hate of those ye guard—

The cry of hosts ye humour

(Ah slowly) to the light:

"Why brought ye us from bondage,

“Our loved Egyptian night?”

Take up the White Man’s burden-

Have done with childish days-

The lightly proffered laurel,

The easy, ungrudged praise.

Comes now, to search your manhood

Through all the thankless years,

Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,

The judgment of your peers!

 

[Weatherman2020]

Same can be said about liberty. You look at the players who championed liberty in history and you find their faiths to be very similar.

 

[mamooth]

Slavery ended in the USA because the heroes of the North stomped the very, very Christian slavers of the South.

Those Christian slavers would have maintained slavery forever, citing the Bible as justification, if the heroes of the North hadn't stopped them.

And today, those modern Christian Confederates are still defending slavery. They try to revise history by pretending the Civil War wasn't about slavery, and that slavery would have ended on its own if the evil North hadn't invaded the innocent South.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Slavery ended in the USA because the heroes of the North stomped the very, very Christian slavers of the South.

Those Christian slavers would have maintained slavery forever, citing the Bible as justification, if the heroes of the North hadn't stopped them.

And today, those modern Christian Confederates are still defending slavery. They try to revise history by pretending the Civil War wasn't about slavery, and that slavery would have ended on its own if the evil North hadn't invaded the innocent South.

What color is the sky on your planet?

 

[Syriusly]

Slavery is not unique. Since the dawn of recorded history mankind has practiced slavery. Whites did it to whites, blacks did it blacks, Indians did it to Indians, Asians did it Asians and every combination of all those combined did it to each other.

What is unique in the history of mankind is the abolition of slavery. And there is one thing in common that spawned the change. Christianity. Christianity forced the longest running practice to become despised in the civilized world.

Christianity took 1800 years to decide it was against slavery.

After Christians advocated slavery for most of those 1800 years.

But I am glad that Christians changed their minds.

 

[guno]

Christianity and slavery

[Slavery] was established by decree of Almighty God...it is sanctioned in the Bible, in both Testaments, from Genesis to Revelation...it has existed in all ages, has been found among the people of the highest civilization, and in nations of the highest proficiency in the arts." Jefferson Davis, President, Confederate States of America 1,2

"The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example." Rev. R. Furman, D.D., a Baptist pastor from South Carolina.


The Christian church's main justification of the concept of slavery was based on the "curse of Ham" which appears in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) in Genesis 9:25-27:

"Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers. He also said, 'Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem'."

Christians at the time believed that Canaan had settled in Africa and that his descendents had become black.



Christianity and slavery


It is also a fact that the Bible very specifically endorses slavery. In America before the Civil War, the majority of evangelical Christians were totally convinced that "their personal relationship with Jesus Christ" authorized them to own slaves. Some evangelical factions in recent times did oppose the slave trade.

Christianity and Slavery

 

[Weatherman2020]

Slavery is not unique. Since the dawn of recorded history mankind has practiced slavery. Whites did it to whites, blacks did it blacks, Indians did it to Indians, Asians did it Asians and every combination of all those combined did it to each other.

What is unique in the history of mankind is the abolition of slavery. And there is one thing in common that spawned the change. Christianity. Christianity forced the longest running practice to become despised in the civilized world.

Christianity took 1800 years to decide it was against slavery.

After Christians advocated slavery for most of those 1800 years.

But I am glad that Christians changed their minds.

Islam and atheists still advocate slavery.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Christianity and slavery

[Slavery] was established by decree of Almighty God...it is sanctioned in the Bible, in both Testaments, from Genesis to Revelation...it has existed in all ages, has been found among the people of the highest civilization, and in nations of the highest proficiency in the arts." Jefferson Davis, President, Confederate States of America 1,2

"The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example." Rev. R. Furman, D.D., a Baptist pastor from South Carolina.


The Christian church's main justification of the concept of slavery was based on the "curse of Ham" which appears in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) in Genesis 9:25-27:

"Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers. He also said, 'Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem'."

Christians at the time believed that Canaan had settled in Africa and that his descendents had become black.



Christianity and slavery


It is also a fact that the Bible very specifically endorses slavery. In America before the Civil War, the majority of evangelical Christians were totally convinced that "their personal relationship with Jesus Christ" authorized them to own slaves. Some evangelical factions in recent times did oppose the slave trade.

Christianity and Slavery

Dufus can't get anything right.

 

[Yarddog]

Christianity and slavery

[Slavery] was established by decree of Almighty God...it is sanctioned in the Bible, in both Testaments, from Genesis to Revelation...it has existed in all ages, has been found among the people of the highest civilization, and in nations of the highest proficiency in the arts." Jefferson Davis, President, Confederate States of America 1,2

"The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example." Rev. R. Furman, D.D., a Baptist pastor from South Carolina.


The Christian church's main justification of the concept of slavery was based on the "curse of Ham" which appears in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) in Genesis 9:25-27:

"Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers. He also said, 'Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem'."

Christians at the time believed that Canaan had settled in Africa and that his descendents had become black.



Christianity and slavery


It is also a fact that the Bible very specifically endorses slavery. In America before the Civil War, the majority of evangelical Christians were totally convinced that "their personal relationship with Jesus Christ" authorized them to own slaves. Some evangelical factions in recent times did oppose the slave trade.

Christianity and Slavery

Yet Christianity teaches that we are all children of God, so it was the majority of Christians who believed this that forced the abolishion of slavery in the West when their conscience got to them.

Islamic countries did not use their slaves as much for agriculture , but kidnapped Africans and Europeans as far as Iceland for over 10 centuries. You can say they perfected it at taught it to the people of Europe. The Islamic slave trade mostly ended because their armies got crushed and they were forced to regress. But you still have real slavery today in Tunisia, Sudan, Yemen Saudi, Arabia,Iraq etc.
Islamic slave trade was mainly to capture men to fight in their armies, probably the cannon fodder. And then women for sex of course you can see because their teachings havn't changed at all, ISIS is practicing the same thing. I would say the real proponents of slavery today, don't live in the American south but live in a wide region of the earth between Africa all the way to asia.