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  2. The Bible and slavery - Wikipedia

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    The Bible says that Jesus healed the ill slave of a centurion [88] and restored the cut off ear of the high priest's slave. [89] In his parables, Jesus referenced slavery: the prodigal son, [90] ten gold coins, [91] unforgiving tenant, [92] and tenant farmers. [93] Jesus also taught that he would give burdened and weary laborers rest. [94]

  3. African and African-American women in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Black women have been active in the Protestant churches since before the emancipation proclamation, which allowed slave churches to become legitimized.Women began serving in church leadership positions early on, and today two mainstream churches, the American Baptist Churches USA and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, have women in their top leadership positions.

  4. Christian abolitionism - Wikipedia

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    Paul, the author of several letters that are part of the New Testament, requests the manumission of a slave named Onesimus in his letter to Philemon, [3] writing "Perhaps the reason he was separated from you for a little while was that you might have him back forever—no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a dear brother" (Philemon 15-16).

  5. Christian views on slavery - Wikipedia

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    Theodore of Mopsuestia In Commentary on Philemon 2.264.10–14, he comments that some Christian ecclesiastics of his day 'would write with great authority that a slave who joined us in the faith and hastened to the true religion of his own free will should be freed from slavery. For there are many such people today, who want to be seen to be ...

  6. Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom - Wikipedia

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    Slaves were freed on a large scale in 956 by the Goryeo dynasty. [12] Gwangjong of Goryeo proclaimed the Slave and Land Act (노비안검법, 奴婢按檢法), an act that "deprived nobles of much of their manpower in the form of slaves and purged the old nobility, the meritorious subjects and their offspring and military lineages in great ...

  7. Woman in the World of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    the status of woman in the world Jesus entered; the position of Jesus with respect to women; and; the status of women in the church as reflected in the New Testament. The three divisions of the book: Part I describes the Jewish-Greek-Roman world that bears most directly upon the world in which Jesus lived. Part II is concerned with Jesus ...

  8. Galatians 3:28 - Wikipedia

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    The verse literally translates to "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus". [2] David Scholer, New Testament scholar at Fuller Theological Seminary, believes that the passage is "the fundamental Pauline theological basis for the inclusion of women and men as equal and mutual partners in all of the ministries of the church."

  9. End of slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    After the United States was founded in 1776, the country split into slave states (states permitting slavery) and free states (states prohibiting slavery). Slavery became concentrated in the Southern United States. The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves in 1807 banned the Atlantic slave trade, but not the domestic slave trade or