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Nonetheless, pro-slavery Europeans defined the "non-Israelites" of Leviticus 25:44-46 as non-Christians and later as non-white people. Watts suggested that they used the Bible's two-tier model to justify enslaving Africans and Native Americans while limiting white forced laborers to indentured servants and prisoners. [114]
Politician Isaac Gascoyne gave a speech to the House of Commons on 10 June 1806 in which he argued that slavery was authorised by Leviticus 25:44-46. [ 14 ] : 40 Similarly, on 23 February 1807, George Hibbert gave a speech to the House of Commons defending slavery on the basis of the Old Testament and the Epistle to Philemon.
Hebrew legislation maintained kinship rights (Exodus 21:3, 9, Leviticus 25:41, 47–49, 54, providing for Hebrew indentured servants), marriage rights (Exodus 21:4, 10–11, providing for a Hebrew daughter contracted into a marriage), personal legal rights relating to physical protection and protection from breach of conduct (Exodus 21:8 ...
Tamara Cohn Eskenazi wrote that Biblical laws required Israelites to act as redeemers for relatives in four situations: (1) redemption of land in Leviticus 25:25–34, (2) redemption of persons from slavery, especially in Leviticus 25:47–50, (3) redemption of objects dedicated to the sanctuary in Leviticus 27:9–28, and (4) avenging the ...
Slave armies were deployed by Sultans and Caliphs at various medieval era war fronts across the Islamic Empires, [121] [133] playing an important role in the expansion of Islam in Africa and elsewhere. [134] Slavery of men and women in Islamic states such as the Ottoman Empire, states Ze'evi, continued through the early twentieth century. [114]
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[6] "Leviticus 25:44-46 was quoted even more extensively in proslavery speeches and tracts than was the Curse on Canaan." [7] Slavery defenders searched the Bible to find justification for slavery, even in the Ten Commandments, "one of the things not to be coveted was thy neighbor's manservant or maidservant."
SOURCE: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, University of New Hampshire-Main Campus (2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010).Read our methodology here.. HuffPost and The Chronicle examined 201 public D-I schools from 2010-2014.