The Bible on Slavery?

You did a very good job of addressing the issues. I want you to know that because the people you are hoping to convince will likely never be convinced. It's not you that is the problem. It's their own stubborn self will. You should be commended for the attempt.

I know it's a fool's errand. But so was Don Quixote's, and he was immortalized in print. (Yeah, I know it was fiction, work with me here).

Thanks!

The bible frequently describes what is, rather than what should be. For instance, Christ makes plain in 19:4-8 that God allowed Moses to make a rule regarding divorce, but that divorce is not what God wants from us:
"And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so."

How can God say (in Malachi 2:16) "I hate divorce", yet regulate the way it is to be done? Because God knows we're going to mess up and do things our own way, and at least wants to limit the harm we do thereby.

We must be very careful and read widely in the bible before we claim 'the bible promotes this or that'.

Well said.

Well said.