For The Freedom of All Men

The First Baptist Church of America supports the global end of slavery.

The First Baptist Church of America believes that slavery is an offense against God, against human dignity, and against the moral order of the world. This is not symbolic language or rhetorical decoration. For The Freedom of All Men is the church’s commitment to oppose slavery, forced labor, human trafficking, coercive exploitation, debt bondage, and every system that treats a human being as property, profit, or disposable labor.

Many people think of slavery as something safely buried in the past, but it still exists in modern forms across the world. It exists where workers are trapped by threats, where migrants are exploited, where children are trafficked, where women are coerced, where wages are withheld, where documents are seized, where fear is used as a chain, and where poverty is manipulated into captivity. The forms may change, but the evil remains the same.

The Church’s position is simple: no human being was made by God to be owned. A person made in the image of God cannot be bought, sold, trapped, trafficked, or used as an instrument for another person’s comfort or profit. Christ came to proclaim liberty to the captives, and a church that follows Christ cannot be neutral about captivity.

This project begins with moral clarity and moves toward practical action. The First Baptist Church of America seeks to educate, organize, support credible anti-slavery efforts, share resources, encourage public accountability, and partner where possible with those already doing serious work in this field. We do not pretend that a global evil can be ended by words alone, but we also refuse to treat the size of the problem as an excuse for silence.

For The Freedom of All Men is part of the church’s service to the 1000-year peace. There can be no true peace while human beings are enslaved, trafficked, coerced, or made invisible by systems of profit and power. A world ruled by Christ cannot be a world content with bondage.

The work begins with truth. We must learn to see what has been hidden, listen to those who have survived, support those who know the terrain, and refuse the comfort of pretending slavery is already gone. The First Baptist Church of America seeks the freedom of all men, and we mean it.

The Path to Freedom

Ending slavery requires more than righteous anger. It requires a destination, a plan, collaborators, pressure, sacrifice, and the courage to measure ourselves against the world we claim to want. The goal of For The Freedom of All Men is the end of global slavery by 2050. That is the named horizon.

The absolute minimum reasonable timeline for a project of this scale is 20 years. It will require mapping the systems that sustain slavery, supporting survivor-centered organizations, building reporting pathways, educating communities, pressuring institutions, changing laws, enforcing those laws, confronting corrupt systems, and refusing to let hidden exploitation remain hidden. The obstacles are serious: poverty, organized crime, weak enforcement, public indifference, political cowardice, and the simple fact that slavery remains profitable.

But if America harnessed its power with moral clarity, and if we became a nation of true Christians in heart, conduct, and public life, the greatest empire that has ever existed could help end global slavery in 10 years. That would require mass mobilization. It would require churches, workers, families, businesses, lawmakers, journalists, lawyers, donors, educators, and ordinary citizens to act together. It would require a change not only in policy, but in our hearts and our lives individually.

We must grow in our faith as a nation if we are even to reach for such a goal. But grow we must, because every day that slavery persists is another day that God’s Kingdom is denied to us. If you do not know where you are going and have a plan to get there, you won’t ever reach your destination. We know the destination, and though the path is treacherous, with enough collaborators and a critical mass of followers and believers, it is literally possible.

And we refuse to wait. One Thousand Years of Peace starts Today.

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