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I apologize, but the provided documents don't contain information about Ellen White's statements on slavery. The search results include various references to her prophetic ministry and work, but none specifically address the topic of slaves or slavery. One document mentions Statement Concerning Slaveryin a title (2MR 298), but the actual content of that statement isn't included in the excerpts provided. The document indicates that Ellen White answered questions at an interview in Australia in 1895, and that her son J. E. White published this in *The Southern Work* around 1900, with one sentence about slavery omitted from general distribution. However, the actual statement itself isn't given in these search results. To find Ellen White's counsel on slavery, I would need to search for documents that contain her actual writings on this topic, such as her statements about the Civil War era, her work in the Southern states after the war, or her principles regarding human dignity and equality. --- 💡 **You might also want to explore:** • What did Ellen White say about racial equality and treating all people with dignity? • What counsel did Ellen White give about working in the Southern states after the Civil War? • How did Ellen White address social justice issues in her time?

Ellen White addressed the eternal destiny of slaves with both compassion and clarity. She taught that "God cannot take to heaven the slave who has been kept in ignorance and degradation, knowing nothing of God or the Bible, fearing nothing but his master's lash, and holding a lower position than the brutes" (EW 276.1). However, she immediately explained God's merciful solution: "He does the best thing for him that a compassionate God can do. He permits him to be as if he had not been, while the master must endure the seven last plagues and then come up in the second resurrection and suffer the second, most awful death" (EW 276.1). This reveals Ellen White's understanding that slaves kept in complete ignorance and degradation would not face eternal punishment, but rather would cease to exist—a merciful end for those who never had opportunity to know God through no fault of their own. The accountability, she emphasized, falls entirely on the slave master who will answer for keeping another human being in such conditions. However, Ellen White also wrote about "pious" slaves who did have knowledge of God. She described how during the final message before Christ's return, "the last call was carried even to the poor slaves; and the pious among them poured forth their songs of rapturous joy at the prospect of their happy deliverance" (SR 400.2). This indicates that slaves who had access to spiritual truth and accepted it would indeed be saved. Ellen White was emphatic that slavery itself was a grave sin. She declared that God has made man a free moral agent, whether white or blackand that "the colored race are God's property. Their Maker alone is their master" (1T 358.1). She warned that slave masters will have their retributionand that "the wrath of God has slumbered, but it will awake and be poured out without mixture of mercy" (1T 358.1). The key principle is this: God judges each person according to the light and opportunity they have received. Slaves kept in complete ignorance would not be condemned for what they never had opportunity to know, while those who did receive spiritual light would be judged by how they responded to it—just like any other person. --- 💡 **You might also want to explore:** • What did Ellen White say about God's judgment being based on the light people receive? • How did Ellen White describe God's justice toward those who oppress others? • What counsel did Ellen White give about racial equality and human dignity?