He came to free men and women from their sins. And here’s my point: what his message does is transform people so they begin to love God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength and to love their neighbor as themselves. Naturally, that has an impact on the idea of slavery.
Wow, that really falls flat considering the last 2000 years. Not that Christian ideals didn’t have some impact, but when a religion is dominant for more than a millennia, it doesn’t get to claim exclusive causality for a change in mindset that has happened fairly recently.