Indeed, it did. Nobody denies that it did. Could something similar happen again? Fun fact: In the fourth century, Saint Augustine, the famous Christian bishop from Hippo, declared that slavery was not, in fact, a self-evident by-product of the natural order. He declared it a by-product of sin! Decades earlier, with a bit of prompting from another Christian bishop, Emperor Constantine declared infanticide a crime. Later, Emperor Valentinian made infanticide a capital offense.
