How did slave holders use the Bible to justify slavery?
A) The responsibility of a slave to obey his or her master is implied by the commandment to "Obey your mother and father."
B) Slavery is mentioned in both the Old and New Testaments, and expressly condemned in neither location.
C) According to a "lost book" of the New Testament, Jesus himself owned slaves.
D) Slave-owning tribes mentioned in the Bible, such as that of Abraham, were far more holy than those that did not own slaves.
E) It was not man's place to free someone that God had willed should be born into slavery.

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Slaveholders often cited the fact that slavery is mentioned in the Bible without explicit condemnation as a justification for the practice.

How Did Slave Holders Use the Bible to Justify Slavery