What Does the Bible Say about Slavery?

AMEN! pastor Steve is right again... and listen to the whole thing before making any assumptions... he will clearly bring it all in perspective for today, yesterday and the future, according to Gods Holy Word.... I did delete this video after hearing the last part of his sermon, worried that what he said might not be the case, but when I researched on the web,  I thought I had remembered reading this about 3 years ago... and I did... 

Exodus Chapter 21, verse 20:

If a man beats his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies as a direct result, he must be punished, but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two, since the slave is his property.

if i just sent you a message about pastor steve, please disregard the last part of the message that i typed in for the video about slavery... i was only trying to post the scripture and not what the persons opinion was about it... God is NOT comfortable with any sin... and this also means beating on slaves... He has made rules that are to be followed within a line that can be tolerated but this was for the days when man still didn't really know Gods heart... but, just because a man beat his slaves for whatever reason he felt was right (even if he was wrong), Gods main concern, since man is sooo wretched and blind, was to at least warn any slave owner of excessive beatings... apparently if someone could die or might die from a beating, then that person was treated cruely and that is not what God is comfortable with but will only tolerate... He made sure that the israelites knew better, which would had been their decision to do such an act and then they would still have to suffer the outcome of either being put to death for killing the slave or other curses that the slave owner would suffer... for one thing, God didn't command slave owners to beat on them but if they were going to then He gave a degree of magnitude because He knows how wicked man is and man sometimes only listens because he only cares about himself and not for the slave... But God loved for man to be kind to the slaves and to treat them like family....