It may very well be immoral, but it’s not actually that obvious that it’s immoral.
Evidently the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks, and Romans didn’t believe that.
When the Declaration of Independence was signed, all 13 of the states were slave states.
After the war ended in 1865, General U.S. Grant continued to own slaves.
The Christians’ Bible endorses slavery.
“You must not covet your neighbor’s home; you must not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male or female slave, nor his ox, nor his ass; nor anything at all that is your neighbor’s.” (Exodus 20:17; From the translation of the Old Testament edited by J. M. Powis Smith.)
It would be senseless to say don’t covet your neighbor’s servant, because a servant is not owned by his employer.
“Slaves, obey your earthly masters, with anxious care….” — Ephesians 6:5 (Westcott translation)
“You who are slaves must always obey your earthly masters….” — Colossians 3:22 (Goodspeed translation)
“ONESIMUS … a slave of Philemon … , ran away from Colossae…. St. Paul … wrote the Epistle to Philemon, appealing to him to receive his slave, … and himself undertaking to refund any money which Philemon had lost through the action of Onesimus….” (James Hastings; Dictionary of the Bible (1898))
“They, unless grotesquely ignorant and virtually illiterate, lied in their throats when they denied that the ‘New Testament,’ and hence the religion that was explicitly based on it, specifically sanctioned and authorized the institution of slavery. There were honest clergymen who told the truth, but their voices were drowned out by the yelling of the rabble-rousers.” (Revilo P. Oliver; “The Beginning of the End”; Liberty Bell, Aug. 1988)
“Under pressure, at first coercion and now bribery, from White nations, the Congoids have officially renounced slavery and practice it only when they are unobserved. In Africa today [they] quite commonly trade a wife or two for a goat, cow, or other more valuable animal. They often give away their children, sell them for a small fee, or use them in [deadly] sport.” (Revilo P. Oliver; “Divinest Poesy”; Liberty Bell, June 1993)
“As I have explained, the introduction of an income tax resurrected a form of slavery as it gave government ownership rights in our labor. The definition of a free person is a person who owns his own labor. Today people subject to an income tax are in the same position as medieval serfs who owed part of their labor to feudal lords.” (Paul Craig Roberts; http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/03/12/free-trade-was-ricardos-concocted-theory-used-to-dispossess-the-british-aristocracy)
Many say that the 16th amendment was never lawfully ratified.
It was stated that slavery is obviously immoral.
It may very well be immoral, but it’s not actually that obvious that it’s immoral.
Evidently the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks, and Romans didn’t believe that.
When the Declaration of Independence was signed, all 13 of the states were slave states.
After the war ended in 1865, General U.S. Grant continued to own slaves.
The Christians’ Bible endorses slavery.
“You must not covet your neighbor’s home; you must not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male or female slave, nor his ox, nor his ass; nor anything at all that is your neighbor’s.” (Exodus 20:17; From the translation of the Old Testament edited by J. M. Powis Smith.)
It would be senseless to say don’t covet your neighbor’s servant, because a servant is not owned by his employer.
“Slaves, obey your earthly masters, with anxious care….” — Ephesians 6:5 (Westcott translation)
“You who are slaves must always obey your earthly masters….” — Colossians 3:22 (Goodspeed translation)
“ONESIMUS … a slave of Philemon … , ran away from Colossae…. St. Paul … wrote the Epistle to Philemon, appealing to him to receive his slave, … and himself undertaking to refund any money which Philemon had lost through the action of Onesimus….” (James Hastings; Dictionary of the Bible (1898))
“They, unless grotesquely ignorant and virtually illiterate, lied in their throats when they denied that the ‘New Testament,’ and hence the religion that was explicitly based on it, specifically sanctioned and authorized the institution of slavery. There were honest clergymen who told the truth, but their voices were drowned out by the yelling of the rabble-rousers.” (Revilo P. Oliver; “The Beginning of the End”; Liberty Bell, Aug. 1988)
“Under pressure, at first coercion and now bribery, from White nations, the Congoids have officially renounced slavery and practice it only when they are unobserved. In Africa today [they] quite commonly trade a wife or two for a goat, cow, or other more valuable animal. They often give away their children, sell them for a small fee, or use them in [deadly] sport.” (Revilo P. Oliver; “Divinest Poesy”; Liberty Bell, June 1993)