Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.
I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.
The abolition of slavery was driven by the King James Bible. It gave slaves a common language and purpose.
Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.
Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither was just.
Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.
However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.