Obama is an idiot. Slavery is a very unproductive economic system, and only came back into the West when Europe started buying back hostages captured by the Muslims, mostly on the Mediterranean. These people were being sold on the ME slave markets, and not only was buying them back considered a work of mercy, but many religious orders were founded to ransom them or even exchange members of the order for these people (so that the priests or brothers could preach to the Muslims from prison or the slave market, wherever they were held).
There were a couple of slave-trading European countries: England and Portugal, although people in other countries did buy slaves from them. But except for those two countries, slave purchasers in other countries were not usually bringing in a slave population to be laborers on an estate, but were “buying” a cook, a hairdresser, a groom, etc. Outside of the British Caribbean and the US South, laves had legal rights, could earn money and buy their freedom, and were essentially long-term indentured servants. And even England itself formerly abolished slavery in its colonies in 1833, although of course the US persisted for another 30 years.
For some reason, the British American colonies adopted a completely Islamic version of slavery, where slaves were chattel (that means possessions) and were not considered full human beings. The only Christian groups that really supported this idea, however, were churches here and there that were dependent on the plantation owners, and came up with a “two creations” theory based on the two Creation accounts in Genesis. But other churches were sending missionaries, even though many counties in Georgia and South Carolina had on the books the death penalty for people who preached to or baptized a slave.
So clearly, even 19th century mainstream Christian practice did not approve or favor chattel slavery. There were some Christians who felt that the system should be maintained long enough for the slave owners to protect the former slaves, give them an education and equip them to live in the world after slavery, since the Africans had been brought here involuntarily and deprived of support in adapting to their new world. But slavery was reintroduced to the West through Islam, and was not supported by Christians but by a small group of people making money off of slave labor, who actually forbade the slaves to become Christians.
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