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Saturday, December 27, 2025

Was chattel slavery of American plantations different from the routine slavery of the ancient world?

 DISCUSSION:

Apologists for the acceptance of slavery in the Bible

have sometimes asserted that ancient slavery was 

different from the chattel slavery of American rural

plantation system.  Such an argument can be found in

writings by abolition-favoring writers who display

embarrassment with supporters who cite Bible 

exemplars with slave owning instances.  NO

SUCH HISTORICAL SUPPORT CAN BE MAINTAINED. . 

John T. Noonan, Judge - Author

his 2005 book A Church that can and cannot Change:

the development of Catholic Moral Teaching (Univ.

of Notre Dame Press)

His chapter X begins with granting in 1452 of perpetual

right to reduce Saracens, pagans, infidels to slavery 

by Pope Nicholas V to King of Portugal Alfonso V.

page 62

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