Gain a perspective on how widespread and ‘normal’ slavery has been in global history.

Hear how slaves were priced, and what they did.

Gain a perspective on how radically different Jesus’ teachings and life were, when compared to the views of most cultures in history – including his own.

Hear a short insight into the remarkable changes in thinking that began to take place in the years following Jesus.

Hear a synopsis of the history within which views slowly changed, until the first end came to slavery in England following the Magna Carta in 1215.

Hear about how successes in ending slavery were undone through the discovery of African peoples by the Portuguese and Spanish.

Hear about the changes in cultural thinking that followed the Clapham Groups successful campaign against the slave trade in the early 1800s.

Hear how radical Christian thinkers understood colonisation, and how they tried to stop it in New Zealand.

Hear about the humanitarian activism of our early missionaries, as they and their friends in England attempted to stop the colonisation of New Zealand.

Hear the uncomfortable results of Darwinian theory upon the equality of the races.

Hear about the uncomfortable power of beliefs upon behaviour, as seen in the justification of racial prejudice and genocide in Australia.

Hear about the uncomfortable power of beliefs upon behaviour, as seen in the justification of racial prejudice and genocide in South Africa.

Hear about the uncomfortable power of beliefs upon behaviour, as seen in the justification of racial prejudice and genocide in America, Germany and Russia.

Hear about the end of Slavery that took place among New Zealand Māori in the mid 1800s.

Hear about the significant changes in values that spread to Māori north of Gisborne following the release of a slave known as Taumata-ā-Kura.

Hear about the significant changes in values that spread throughout Taranaki and down to Wellington when the slave, Minarapa, was freed.

Hear how the number of slaves has exploded with population growth, and the unavoidable conclusion that cruelty exists within human nature, and is only overcome in a broad way when logically consistent beliefs are adopted that can condemn it.