ZackF
Puritan Board Professor
My ancestor William the Conqueror stole England from the Saxons. When did it become legitimate land for the Normans?
There is no way to launder one's way into a legitimate human trafficking enterprise.
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My ancestor William the Conqueror stole England from the Saxons. When did it become legitimate land for the Normans?
There is no way to launder one's way into a legitimate human trafficking enterprise.
That person ought to be freed who remains in slavery as a consequence of manstealing.
What about slaves in Roman times? They were usually acquired via conquest.
if the acquired people were stolen before hand then a transfer of ownership doesn't make them legitimately possessed.
If we knew of a church member who was making money from such iniquitous traffic, would that the church be within its rights to censure that person should they remain impenitent?
1. With the exception of a few American allies in the Middle East, the practice is illegal in all UN countries. So the church member would be violating not only US law, but international law.
2. Many slaveowners inherited a system they did not always ask for. Freeing the slave often made life more difficult for the slave (as the slave was now at the mercy of a system in which he was not ready to participate--which is what happened anyway after 1865).
3. You imply that master didn't treat his slaves humanely. Some did. Some didn't. We have testimonies from slaves to both effects.
4. Human trafficking today almost always involves prostitution and drugs--like in the key US allies Albania and Kosovo.
I will point out a self-directed irony. It appears that I am playing Devil's Advocate on this question. I'm really not. I am exploring the implications and entailments of different ethical positions.
I'm currently reading a monograph on Gregory of Nyssa where it talks about his anti-slavery views.
http://www.hansboersma.org/articles...the-heavenly-future-in-saint-gregory-of-nyssa
American slavery often involved fornication, adultery, the break up of families, white supremacy, cruelty and so on.
In the US/British Empire context, I do not think the two can really be separated. The existence of the system was contingent on marriage and family break up, sexual immorality, and cruelty. It could not really have continued otherwise.
I have downloaded it, thanks.
2. The imago dei means (among other things) that Man is Royal, which means he can't be a slave.
The image of God in human beings is visible in their rule over the animals. One can justify slavery only by first reducing rational human beings to the level of irrational animals. Hence Nyssen’s rhetorical questions, “Surely human beings have not been
produced from your cattle? Surely cows have not conceived human stock?” Defenders of slavery, Gregory charges, fail to take note of the radical distinction between humans and animals (155)