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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5609402" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Philemon was about treating the slave well too.  You're trying to put your modern sensibilities to a different era.  When Paul wrote Philemon Rome was very much a pagan empire.  Not Christian at that point.  Slavery was how all the manual labor was handled, just as it was throughout the world.  When Christianity became predominant the European world slowly worked itself away from slavery.  To their great shame the excuse for enslaving Africans when European slavery became unacceptable was the view that Africans weren't quite as human as Europeans.  A view that carried over into the U.S. Constitution.  It was Christian abolitionists who were at the forefront of ending the practice.</p></blockquote><p></p>