Slavery

In the Urantia Book

Primitive races often enslaved each other based on their progressiveness, leading to the origin of slavery on early planets. 51:4.6-7
Primitive man, who never hesitated to enslave his fellows, viewed woman as a family slave, leading to a system of sex slavery rooted in man's diminished reliance on woman. 69:8.1
Lending at exorbitant rates was a primitive method of enslavement, creating a cycle of indebtedness that transformed moneylenders into kings and debtors into bound servants. 69:5.8
Primitive man was a slave to usage, but innovators have dared to initiate new ways of thinking and improved methods of living, despite the inertia of the past acting as a safety brake against rapid advancement. 68:4.5
Agriculture introduced the institutions of slavery and private land ownership, enabling masters to achieve a higher standard of living and enjoy increased leisure for social culture. 81:2.13
Slavery was not prevalent among pastoral peoples, who in war would kill men captives and only enslave women and children, as seen in the Hebrews' higher level of civilization. 69:8.4
The early origin of serfdom was man attached to the land, and the Africans became the great slave race. 69:8.5

Slavery, a feature of military conquest, brought about the first general division of society into free and bond. 69:3.7 69:8.1-4 70:8.5 121:3.7
Enslavement was a significant advancement in civilization, bridging chaos to order and compelling lazy peoples to work for the betterment of society. 69:8
Today, men allow ambition to enslave them to a new form of industrial servitude in slavery to debt. 69:8.10
The early Christian church was tolerant of slavery due to the possibility of emancipation leading to elevated social status and success for some slaves. 121:3.8
Secularism breaks church bonds, only to betray man into political and economic slavery. 195:8.4
The specialization of labor was based on slavery, stemming from the conqueror's relations with the conquered, marking the start of human enslavement. 69:3.7

The abolition of slavery ensures freedom for all persons by eliminating human bondage and serfdom. 71:2.10 71:8.5
Involuntary servitude is abolished on normal worlds after the arrival of Adams. 51:4.7
In the continental nation, social antagonisms have lessened, and good will is growing as the abolition of slavery was achieved gradually over one hundred years ago. 72:5.2

Slavery forced unproductive groups to work, driving progress and creating wealth for society. 69:8.6
Slavery compelled man to invent the regulative mechanism of society and laid the foundation for government. 69:8.7
Enslavement of captives represented a great advance over massacre and cannibalism, marking a more merciful treatment of war captives in earlier times. 69:8.2-3 81:2.6
Slavery, an indispensable link in civilization, propelled societies from chaos to order, driving social advancement and the birth of government. 69:8.6-7
Man's consent to till the soil liberated captors' wives from tilling soil. 84:3.8
Slavery in agriculture raised masters' standard of living and allowed for more leisure in social culture. 81:2.13
Despite its oppression, slavery ultimately led to the slaves sharing in the blessings of higher society they helped create. 69:8.8

The glorious era of Greek art perished under the weight of descendants of Danubian slaves, leading to a decline in spiritual and cultural excellence in the Aegean region. (80:7.6,13) 98:1.1 98:2.3 133:5.12
The practice of saving mediocre captives as slaves deteriorated the Cro-Magnon type, despite cultural advances from the Mesopotamian invasion. 80:3.9
Slavery was a reason for Roman decline. 195:3.9
Slavery, while oppressive, taught industry, leading to shared blessings and social achievement, yet insidiously attacks society as the gravest destructive social malady. 69:8.8

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Slavery is linked in 39 paragraphs of the text.