VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Dinah|DATE|1382173666|CONTENT|Slavery has never been abolished.  A legal slave-trade was declared illegal in the nineteenth century, but slavery has continued in different forms.  ‘Not everyone believes slavery is wrong’ the Rev Jenkins said, but failed to mention this statement once applied to many Christians who owned slaves.  I don’t think there is any explicit condemnation of slavery anywhere in the Bible, though doubtless someone will correct me if I am wrong.  It was considered extremely enlightened of Christians to allow slaves to be baptised into their faith, but in Jesus’s time when slavery was endemic throughout the known world, it was just accepted as a fact of life.|IP-ADDRESS|79.71.125.137|MODERATIONFLAG|