Sentences with phrase «against slaveholding»

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.

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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.
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