text: Canon law forbade (forbids) Christians from enslaving other Christians.  Slavery in Christian Europe was rare and of no economic significance. The end of slavery and most significantly the slave trade in England was a political fight won explicitly on terms of Christian morality.
  
  The Puritans of New England, steeped in the bible, found slavery incompatible with Christian virtue and its practice there was generally benign and certainly  minuscule.  The abolitionist cause which Adventists endorsed was nothing if not a Christian movement of conscience.
  
  Just like some Christians today find abortion compatible with biblical morality, some Christians reasoned chattel slavery was compatible with scripture. But it is a huge historical error to assume Christianity used to be for slavery before it was against it.
  
  Bondage remains. Prisons are a system of state-imposed bondage. We don't call it slavery; but we might. It is a species of slavery.