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in some ways as defenders of slavery.
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You can therefore assume it was divinely sanctioned.
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You can also look in the New Testament
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for examples of it, justifications of it.
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"Slaves, be honorable, be dutiful"
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be obedient is usually the word in the King James
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"Slaves, be obedient to your masters."
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Slavery is all over the Bible,
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in one way or another.
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The Bible, of course, can breathe anti-slavery into a situation
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and it can breathe pro-slavery into a situation.
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A second kind of set of arguments,