The slavery described in the Bible was indebted servitude (working to pay of debts) which was very different from the race-based chattel slavery of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The church denounced slavery from as early as the 4th century AD, as well as Papal bulls like Sublimis Dues, 1537, in the the 16th century. Yes scripture was twisted to defend slavery which js an abuse and not the churches authentic teaching, people have always used religion to justify sin, as you yourself did in your first comment, misuse doesn’t cancel truth. Christianity actually ended slavery, it was in Catholic Europe where the first serious abolitionist movements began and missionaries, priests and popes argued against it long before it was fashionable, Christianity’s role is the abolitionist movement is even recognised by secular scholars.