They pointed out that slavery was practiced by the people of Israel and regulated by God, and that Jesus never said a word
against slaveholding.
Not exact matches
Anthony Benezet wrote and spoke
against it and persuaded a number of outstanding people to oppose
slaveholding.
(3) The laws and prescriptions of the Jewish faith
against slavery as set forth in the Holy Scriptures represented an enormous theological and ideological impediment to
slaveholding.