Slavery

An abhorrent institution of which the Bible heartily approves in passages which advise slave owners not to be too hard on their chattel. Slavery is the ownership of one human being by another for the owner's benefit. The Bible imples that the relationship of wife to husband bears many of the characterisitics of the relation between slave and master. How's that for family values! The United States fought a Civil War over the issue of slavery after certain Southern States threatened to secede fropm the Union of Abraham Lincoln were elected President.