Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long chattel slavery, established through kidnapping, could not be squared with biblical teaching either in the Old Testament or the New.

Timothy J. Keller
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The great thing about slavery in the Bible is that it not hard labor. Slavery was a form of servanthood. Servanthood means taking care of someone else. Slavery in biblical times ended with the death of the slave.

The slavess weren't being abused because they were being taken care of. The Bible also makes it clear that slavery cannot exist with God's law.

Source: The Reason For God: Belief In An Age Of Skepticism

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