EXCELLENT PIECE BY SOWELL!
Now: After you’ve read it and appreciate it for its own sake, read it again and mentally make the following changes:
- The dateline is 2305 rather than 2005.
- All of the references to England are changed to references to America.
- All of the references to slavery are changed to abortion.
Gives one hope!
Author: Jimmy Akin
Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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It is interesting to note that slavery was abolished first by the force of law and military means and only much later did the tide of popular opinion turn against it.
Is there a good history on the disappearance/transformation of slavery in the middle ages? For example, I’ve read that freeing one’s slaves was a conidition of conversion to Christianity in medieval Norway, a condition that apparently didn’t hinder many Norsemen from converting. Supposedly slavery was re-introduced with a vengeance during the Age of Discovery and colonization of the new world.