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You don't understand the spirit of the Christian religion. "Slavery" is not a theme for Christians. A slave who is a Christian is as well a Christian as a slaveholder. Both are sisters and brothers in god. This means for example that a Christian slaveholder takes care for his slaves so they are able to live like Christians. A problem with freedom starts only to exist if a slave - let me call him "Tom" - likes to be free. So what makes Arthur (the slaveholder) when Tom (the slave) - both are children of god - likes to be free? I guess he will try to teach him first what a free man has to know and to do and let him free.
Or another scenario: Tom has a problem to do his work. So what will Arthur do? He will help him! And what will Peter see who comes along? Two men working together. But who is the slave and who is the master? Under the Romans no one was able to see this, because Rome had been full of people from all races and nations and everyone was able to be a citizen of Rome or a slave of a citizen of Rome. A slaveholder had not been automatically a bad man - but who was not good to his slaves came more and more under social pressure. And later the whole system of slavery made not a big sense any longer.
In this context I read some years ago that everyone of us in the so called "civilized world" uses today the power of 60 slaves in average. This power is electricity or gasoline and so on. I asked myselve what we would do today if all this power which we are used to use has really to come from slaves. I guess in this case nearly everyone of us - ¿ who not except some Hippies and the Amish ? - would crucify Jesus and would wash the own hands in innocent. On the other side: Often I love nothing more than to be wrong.
You don't understand the spirit of the Christian religion. "Slavery" is not a theme for Christians.
you do not understand -
"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
the state religion of the roman empire - is a religion of enslavement - to the roman emperor ...
- and does not reflect the liberation theology, self determination the 1st century events stood for. and those people died for.