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When the USA was 99% Christian our strong Christian morals did not prevent the country from importing slaves, nor enslaving the children of slaves.
After abolition the USA was still 99% Christian and children were living in near slavery, working in mines and factories before the passage of child labor laws.
The book of Leviticus states "You may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance."
Strong Christian morals are fully compatible with slavery. There's plenty of biblical support for slavery in Ephesians 6, Exodus 21 (ironically), parts of Leviticus and two or three other books. As far as I can tell Voodoo morals do not support slavery and the spirit of Voodoo, being a Diaspora religion conceived as a rebellion to the slave and plantation culture of the 1700's, would be opposed to it on general principal.
The Hatian government is trying to crack down on the practice but that could be more of a progressive human rights ethic.
Slavery is biblicalLyupported (with strictures, but none too imposing on the slave owner) so it is biblically moral, therefore slavery is moral from a Christian perspective.
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