Slavery promoted by the Old Testament?

The Old and New Testaments did not promote slavery. They merely commented on them. Slavery in the ancient near east was normal. If you weren't a slave, you likely had them. All western capitalist concepts cannot be imposed on ancient history. It does violence to the texts. That said, if anything Old and New Testaments sought a higher sort of kindness and justice than was the norm.
It was the Quakers (A Christian sect) who in 1657 began the question of slavery. By the American Revolution there was no Quaker who owned a slave

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