[cyborg]

http://www.wallbuilders.com Also, RC Sproul from Ligonier Ministries... ask christians who have preached about this very same issue. You will very reasoned responses, explanations and how to have an intelligent, rational discussion.

I'm sure what your friend probably has in mind is that christian societies should have known better, as opposed to being the only ones perpetuating slavery. Even so, anyone can call themselves 'christian' but not really be so.

[Agitate]

Slavery today from iabolish.com

It has a nice interactive map describing slavery all over the world.


God Bless America

[Richard Axtell]

Your friend is assuming you will not do your homework. Prove him wrong. He is either a believer in some very fraudulent anti-Christian hate-prop, or rather simple minded and uses excuses and assumptions to make up for his ignorance of history. First of all, ALL cultures and societies have held slaves in some fashion and at some point in their history, including Africans and Native American tribes and civilizations. The Arabs were the first to trade in African slaves, even before the spread of Islam. So many other posters have included excellent links proving these contentions, that I won't bother duplicating them, but one thing is certain, your friend has NO IDEA what he is talking about!

[ETERNAL WARMING]

And let us not forget that there were BLACK plantation owners who had slaves in the South.

[Tribune7]

I am having a discussion with an extremely liberal friend of mine, and he made the claim that only Christian white societies have ever been involved in slavery.

The Romans, the Greeks, the Hebrews, the entire Islamic world, the black pre-colonial nations which sold their brothers into slavery to whites, the Aztecs, the Caribs (although they ate their slaves), the Celts (St. Patrick was a Briton captured by Irish slave raiders), the Babylonians, the Egyptians, is that enough?