What position does the Bible take on the issue of Slavery?

[Georg Ebner]

For us mythical people (reaching from StoneAge to MiddleAges), who take the natural order into account, the father and the pater patriae are symbols of the DIVine. (Thus the AT's command to adore father&mother stands on top of the second - intramundan - table, parallel to the one on the top of the first - supramundan - table about adoring GOD.)
What means, that we are per se slaves of a monArchus solutus a legibus ("he doule tou kyriou", as B.V.MARY responded to the angel), who have no right to flee ourselves our slavery. But as our master has in HIS endless graciousness decided to make us HIS brothers, a Christian master cannot act differently.