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God wanted owners to free them but not badly enough to command it.

It didn't say not eating pork would result in atonement of sins. It simply said don't do it.[/quote]

[b]Because giving up pork is far easier than outright suddenly stopping slavery, which was institutionalized, and deeply entrenched in pagan Arab life and also throughout history among people of all religions. So Allah eradicated it in steps:[/b]
1) promised a great reward to owners who freed concubines or slaves
2) encouraged owners to marry believing concubines ( which would have effectively freed them)
3) equated children of slaves with the owners other children. Thus they could not be sold and received the same inheritance rights.

All these have the effect of eradicating slavery. [/quote]

We're talking about God/Allah here. He can do ANYTHING he wants, including eradicating slavery in 630 AD. That would have saved centuries of slavery.

Meanwhile, I disagree that "eradication" follows from merely offering incentives to free and marry your believing concubines and slaves. So a Muslim dude frees 1 of his 100 concubines, is that really progress? And about the concubines who don't want to convert to Islam? I mean, obviously Islam got a gazillion converts via concubines who didn't want to service their owners (and this really brings into question the issue of "no compulsion" in conversion), but what about those who refused to convert?[/quote]

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