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Politics : Evolution
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To: average joe who wrote (47145)2/22/2014 7:20:32 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 69300
 
... The main thrust of Christian abolitionism emerged from the evangelical revival of the 18th century, which spawned dynamic Christians with clear-cut beliefs on morality and sin and approached the issue of slavery from this standpoint.

In his Thoughts upon Slavery, John Wesley questioned the morality of slavery and those who engaged in it, while William Wilberforce, the evangelical Anglican MP who worked to end the slave trade in Parliament, believed that he had been called by God to end the 'immoral' slave trade.
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The Bible contains references to slavery

Aristotle's writings contain references to slavery and that wasn't unusual. But no Greco-Roman abolition movement ever formed.
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