[kosta50]

The other main avenue for becoming a slave was to be on the losing side in a war. Once again, if you were in such a position, what would be your preference: to be a slave, or to be killed? Remember, those were generally the only choices.

What did Jesus teach? And if the Bible says slavery is okay, then why do we not have it to this day? Instead of putting all these people into jails, feeding them at taxpayer's expense, why not distribute them as slaves to housholds that could use and exra pair of hands for the duration of their snetences?

Surely, slavery must be morally right and good—if the Bible says it is! So, why have Christians abolished it (along wiht another Biblical classic—polygamy)?!

[PapaBear3625]

What did Jesus teach? And if the Bible says slavery is okay, then why do we not have it to this day? Instead of putting all these people into jails, feeding them at taxpayer's expense, why not distribute them as slaves to housholds that could use and exra pair of hands for the duration of their sentences?

Actually it was common to make slaves of convicted felons right into near the end of the 20th Century.

They were used in "chain gangs" for road maintenance and other functions, and to make things in prison workshops, and grow food on prison farms.

13th Amendment: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."