Religion and slavery are incompatible.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.
Slavery, though under modifications which rendered it little more than the apprenticeship of our day, was permitted under the Mosaic dispensation; but it is contrary to the whole tenor of Christianity; and a system which lowers man as an intellectual and responsible being is no less morally than politically wrong.
I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.
Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.
However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.
Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.
There is no slavery but ignorance.