An interesting essay on its utter failure, and the true history of slavery. This is what should be taught in the schools.
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An interesting essay on its utter failure, and the true history of slavery. This is what should be taught in the schools.
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Christians, and the culture they created, freed the slaves. Today, they are scapegoated for the existence of slavery much like they are scapegoated for groups like the KKK, when the truth is that had more to do with the political ideology of Democrats than religion. We need only look at how racist Democrats are today to see that the political ideology of using race as a weapon has never been stronger in the Democrat party.
Freeman Dyson has a discussion in one of his books where he remarks that it was specifically the Quakers (of Britain and the U.S. — who are, of course, Christian, but a tiny subset of Christianity) who spearheaded the 19th century public recognition of slavery as an evil.
It’s also worth noting that the legal and moral thesis that “All men are [created] equal” (the intellectual foundation, one might say, of post-medieval anti-slavery sentiments) — though a view often attributed to Christianity in history — actually originated (minus the “created” part) with Stoicism-steeped ancient Roman jurists.
Their legal and moral intellectual position then became part of the ancient Classical cultural milieu which Christianity inherited.
“Their legal and moral intellectual position then became part of the ancient Classical cultural milieu which Christianity inherited.”
Good for them and the world is better off for it. Will the inheritors of Western Civilization do as well?
I still think we can reinstitute chattel slavery for women only, and our Black and Hispanic brothers will be with us. I bet we could talk our Lesbian sisters into it too.