theprof1,
You can’t make halachic decisions concerning social tenets from the Torah or Gemora. Slavery is sanctioned by the Torah yet nobody in their right mind would say that today slavery is OK.
Really?!
Are we both part of the same religion?
IT WAS assuredly for all eras and climes or it’s nothing at all !
However when/if slavery or servitude is practiced poorly overall ,then it is different
A slave would go free with the displacement of even one of his teeth.
Sh’mos 21:26
One could contend that on a continental scale ,slaves as a collective, had their teeth knocked out,
and therefore were deserving of an abolition of slavery