Michael Jones

They didn't.

But go to Ephesians 6, slaves obey your masters.

But notice what Paul says right after that.

Masters do likewise also.

And scholars like Andrew Lincoln will point out, yep, he's saying basically this is presenting equality.

Slavery can't thrive in this if masters have to treat their slaves the way slaves treat their masters.

Everyone serve each other.

So it's a radical take on the position, but that's the fuel that gave rise to the abolitionist movement later on.

And yeah, it didn't happen right away, but if you actually study European history,

they were doing so many things to end slavery.

You'll see this Pope be like, all right, no more owning slaves in this area.

We're going to ban the Venetian slave trade here.

And then you see, you know, so eventually they were making these incremental steps towards ending slavery.

People don't realize it.

I did a video called how Christianity ended slavery, went into huge detail on that.

So by the time you get to like the 1500s, there's no more slaves in Europe.

So what do they do?

They go to Africa to get their slaves.

And then there's a book called by Katherine Gerbner.

She points out that when they brought slaves to the Sugar Islands, missionaries showed up and they were like, we wanna convert the slaves.