Slavery is one of the oldest evils of society which defied the attempts of reformers for so
many centuries. Ancient civilisations could not eradicate slavery, so they compromised with it. Some of these (non Muslim) civilisations even patronised slavery. The Christian churches participated in slave-trade. Their priests blessed the ships carrying human cargo and admonished the slaves to be obedient, but never urged the masters to be kind. As late as 1970, Roman Catholics purchased 1500 Indian girls because European girls did not like to live as nuns. Among all the religions it was only Islam that attacked the very foundations of this evil. But it is the irony of the history that the people who nourished slavery, supported it, and derived benefit from it, later became (the alleged) champions of its abolition.
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