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After inviting the brothers to a feast, Joseph orders that Benjamin shall be punished, but the brothers offer themselves in his place to Joseph's surprise, where they confess to having sold Joseph into slavery. Joseph finally reveals himself to them, and they reconcile. Joseph reunites with his father Jacob.
The favoritism Israel showed Joseph and the plot against him by his brothers were divine means of getting him into Egypt. [32] Maimonides comments that even the villager in Shechem, about whom Joseph inquired his brother's whereabouts, was a "divine messenger" working behind the scene. [33] A midrash asked, How many times was Joseph sold?
Joseph's father was a very wealthy merchant. [5] The family eventually moved to Patras. The city primarily dealt with Italian merchants. Stephanini learned the family business and spoke Italian. [6] When the Greek War of Independence broke out Joseph was captured and sold into slavery.
In 2006, Ghana introduced Project Joseph, an initiative designed to promote tourism and investment in Ghana from descendants of the Atlantic slave trade. The initiative was intended to serve as an apology for Ghana's historical role in the slave trade, and it was named after the biblical figure Joseph, who was sold into slavery by his family. [4]
Joseph S. Donovan (April 20, 1800 – April 15, 1861) was an American slave trader known for his slave jails in Baltimore, Maryland.Donovan was a major participant in the interregional slave trade, building shipments of enslaved people from the Upper South and delivering them to the Deep South where they would be used, for the most part, on cotton and sugar plantations.
He was bought by the Vai king Siaka [5] and in 1839 sold to Pedro Blanco, a Spanish slave trader. He was imprisoned on the Portuguese slave ship Tecora, in violation of treaties prohibiting the international slave trade. Cinqué was taken to Havana, Cuba, where he was sold with 110 others to Spaniards José Ruiz and Pedro Montez.
Because Joseph told Jacob that his sons were demeaning the sons of the maidservants and calling them slaves, "Joseph was sold as a slave" (Psalms 105:17). Because Joseph told Jacob that they were staring at the girls of the land, Potiphar's wife "cast her eyes upon Joseph." (Genesis 39:7). [68]
A passing caravan takes Joseph after it stops by the well to draw water and sees the boy inside. The brothers, nearby, sell Joseph for a very low price, only wanting to get rid of him. The caravan rescue him and sell him into slavery in Misr (Arabic: مصر, Egypt), to a rich man, the King’s vizier, known as Al-'Aziz (Arabic: ٱلعزيز, lit.