All due respect my friend but you go on a bit of a tangent to excuse an evil. Slavery is/was and always be evil. Plain and simple.
I’m not excusing it. I’m giving reasons why it is not inherently as condemnation worthy as things which actually ARE abominations and which our culture tolerates, even celebrates in some sectors.
I get it, our culture is so libertine and, frankly, obcessed with entitlement that it cannot conceive of anything worse than the opposite of that which it lusts for. It is a cesspool and even the saints, who will ultimately be washed clean of the filth we have had to endure while the old body of death is finally has remained, are still spattered about from those splashing in the filth and mire though we may manage to keep to the shallows and actually want to be clean.
I have no concern for the moral umbrage of those who eagerly spash about in filth. I do care about the opinions of those whom hope to be finally lifted out of the cesspool and thus I present such arguments to them from time to time.
Duh! Bad editing!
Nix “is finally” from that one sentence.