God somehow missed one of the most horrible crimes possible -- slavery. The Bible says nothing about slavery except that slaves are to serve their masters. So is it wrong to help a slave escape hereditary bondage?
Today most of us recognize the 'conductors' of the Underground Railroad as heroes. Today the only qualms that we can have with the hanging of Fritz Sauckel, the most horrible procurer of slaves in the twentieth century is opposition to the death penalty.
There is a key difference between the slavery that was practiced in the Bible and the slavery that was practiced in the United States. The slavery practiced in the Bible was not based on race. People weren't enslaved just because they were of a certain skin color. In addition, both the Old and New Testaments condemned ''man-stealing'', which is how most slaves were ultimately brought to the US:
''And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.'' - Exodus 21:16
''But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind,
for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;'' - 1 Timothy 1:8-10
