The Anti Slavery Essay on Buying Wives and Servants
A prolonged critique argues that the Bible uses buy and bought with money in flexible senses not as property. It contends the Mosaic system secures servants’ rights and that servants joined households voluntarily, with protections and ritual duties easing their status rather than creating chattel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abraham
John the Baptist
Parigan
Chesnut Street
Broadway
Canaan
Padanaram
Boaz
Mahlon
Roth
Hosea
Jacob
Rachael
Sregar
Carter
Isaac
Cain
Illinois
Benton
Clay
Webster
Robert
Robinson
Joseph
Ieee
Tabernacles
Ogeter
Josephus
Calmet
Horne
Ira
Wever
Israel
Land of Israel
Holy City
Eta
Koning
Laban
Egypt
Genaiv
Volbead
Iservants
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THE
Anti-Slavery Society
Main and
Sixth Streets
Cae
CINE
Cincinnati
Ohio
Samuel A. Alley
Sap
Weld
Jarchi
Maimonides