Daniel_

I assumed that the point was that if they were so hot on the 10coms why own slaves.

Tat said there is no biblical sanction directly that I know AGAINST owning slaves - various biblical heroes had slaves.

By the standards of their time and location they were fine upstanding men that were decent to their slaves - I mean Franklin (or was it Washington?) was recently proved to have fathered children on at least one slave.

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