Sentences with phrase «slave ownership»

That would be like me holding white people responsible and demanding that YOU apologize for slave ownership of my ancestors.

Hader explores both funny and tragic stories of his family's surprise tradition of combat soldiers, and an unsurprising history of slave ownership.

actually Philemon gives a strong correction against slave ownership if you understand greek... but you probably did not read that far.

His 400 - acre family estate, Over Norton Park near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, is believed to have been bought with money made through slave ownership hundreds of years ago...

(I'm thinking of the Crusades, the Inquisition, geocentricism, the persecution of the Anabaptists, the use of Scripture to defend slave ownership and segregation, young earth creationism, etc..)

The high and steadily rising value of slaves (by the end of the slavery era, a healthy young man was worth around $ 2000) limited slave ownership to the wealthy.

He would be more out of line with the Bible if he was arguing against slave ownership or for allowing women inside the church.

Another example: Jesus healed a Roman Centurion's slave (without demanding conversion of lifestyle or the forsaking of slave ownership).

Or about the part in leviticus where god's chosen people follow guidelines to slave ownership, or the other part of Leviticus that talks about the procedure of killing non believers and adulterers?

Um... West Virginia was part of the Union, in fact West Virginia exists because that part of Virginia was not comfortable with the iidea of slave ownership and the state was divided.

And slave ownership is a poor example, seeing as that book tells you exactly how to do it properly.

For example, Paul's admonition in Ephesians 6:9 for masters to treat their slaves well, was used by a later generation as permission for slave ownership.