[MBB1984]

The Bible does not expressly prohibit slavery. In the light of eternity, slavery was a very secondary issue. However, it was primarily Christians that caused its abolition.

[Salman]

Christian abolitionists were good and decent people who used their own human compassion and reason to realize that slavery was wrong, and they called it "Christian love".

Why for all those centuries did no Christian realize this?

Apostle Paul (Ephesians 6:9) tells Christian slaveholders to be good masters. He does not say slavery is wrong.

[Natufian]

“The Bible does not expressly prohibit slavery. In the light of eternity, slavery was a very secondary issue.”

Yet when to have sex with one’s wife, which cattle can graze with other cattle, mixed fabric clothes etc, etc. These are primary issues, right?