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Christian views on slavery
00:00:53 1 Biblical references
00:01:37 1.1 Old Testament
00:07:00 1.2 New Testament
00:12:26 2 In the Roman Empire
00:13:50 3 Christianity's view
00:16:04 3.1 Patristic era
00:19:27 3.2 Byzantine Empire
00:20:23 3.3 Middle Ages & Early Modern Era
00:26:27 3.4 Christian abolitionism
00:36:32 3.5 Opposition to abolitionism
00:39:13 4 Slavery in the Americas
00:43:18 4.1 Indigenous African religions in the United States
00:45:57 4.2 United States
00:49:58 4.2.1 Baptists
00:51:23 4.2.2 Catholics
00:56:28 4.2.3 Methodists
00:58:44 4.2.4 Quakers
01:02:58 4.2.5 Mormonism
01:06:17 5 See also
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- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Christian views on slavery are varied both regionally and historically. Slavery in various forms has been a part of the social environment for much of Christianity's history, spanning well over eighteen centuries. In the early years of Christianity, slavery was an established feature of the economy and society in the Roman Empire, and this persisted in different forms and with regional differences well into the Middle Ages. Saint Augustine described slavery as being against God's intention and resulting from sin. In the eighteenth century the abolition movement took shape among Christian people across the globe.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth century debates in the UK and the US, passages in the Bible were used by both pro-slavery advocates and abolitionists to support their respective views.
In modern times, various Christian organizations reject the permissibility of slavery.
