Posted on 12/29/2025 1:00:37 PM PST by Red Badger
Few topics are more distorted in public debate than slavery—especially its relationship to Scripture and Western history. When viewed through the lens of Scripture and credible historical research, the picture becomes far more complex—and, in many cases, radically different from the cultural narrative promulgated by many far-left progressives.
Here are seven myths that need to be challenged, each grounded in biblical truth and supported with historical data.
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The Bible Condones Slavery
Scripture’s storyline consistently moves toward liberation, human dignity, and equality in Christ—not the perpetuation of bondage.
Slaveholders in the American South understood this, which is why they forbade enslaved people from reading, as a plain reading of Scripture undermined slavery itself. Consider:
Exodus: the world’s most influential liberation narrative. Philemon 16: Paul urges receiving Onesimus “no longer as a slave… but as a beloved brother.” Galatians 3:28: status distinctions collapse in Christ. 1 Corinthians 7:21: the enslaved are urged to gain freedom whenever possible. John 8:36: “If the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.” These passages became the theological backbone of evangelical abolitionism in Britain and America.
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Biblical Slavery Was Identical to American Chattel Slavery
This is historically and legally false.
In the ancient Near East, servitude often emerged from war captivity, debt, or famine-relief contracts, not racial ideology. Mosaic Law restricted power and protected the vulnerable:
Debt service was time-limited for the Hebrews. Runaway slaves were not returned (Deut. 23:15–16). Servants received Sabbath rest and legal protection. This bears no resemblance to race-based, hereditary, property-in-persons chattel slavery in the American South.
(For ancient slavery’s complexity, see the British Museum and Oxford Classical Dictionary.)
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I know it is properly explained in the article but liberals keep on pushing the falsehood that slave trades started with white Americans.
There you go altering history. Every one knows only Americans went in to the jungles of Africa and rounded up simple folks and enslaved them. No, really. I saw it on the interweb. 🤔🙄
More ignorance about U.S. history and slavery, verging on stupidity. North American slavery would have been uneconomical without blacks’ genetic advantage of being less susceptible to the effects of malaria. So, a correlation to race, but not a cause.
Why didn’t the great moral crusaders against slavery boycott cotton clothing and tobacco? Because anti-slavery was a path to power, that’s why.
The outdoor historical museum collection Greenfield Village near me in MI has a section of Civil War era buildings and examples of slave life and the small whitewashed cabins which were slave quarters in the South.
A history book about the attraction said in the late 1960s visitors came way saying “It doesn’t look like the slaves had it so bad. They had those nice little houses with cooking and beds.” Also a house like the one in The Jerk had a man paid to sing blues songs and folk songs on the front porch as a re-enactor. The curators had to reimagine the area and put up new narrative signs telling of the down side of being considered property and so on.
2nd image shows interior of one.
Go back in time to the Founders and show them videos of how things turned out. Maybe things would be different.
Meme.
Also not shown is the wage slave type “the cubicle slave”, monitored by computers to see if “you are producing fewer report results than the employee next to you.” “The keystroke monitor shows you have 31% more mistakes than the average in your work group.”
Good post.
Also, indentured servants and adoptions of orphans to be used for hard labor jobs was an informal system with the same inhumanity.
Exploited white immigrants in factories as child laborers were shown in a couple of the “giants of industry” documentaries about Andrew Carnegie types. Missing fingers, hands, arms of children who were maimed by dangerous machinery.
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