Slavery Never Existed

The word "slaves" is the rendering of a Greek word meaning "bodies." In modern translations the Hebrew and Greek words for slave are usually rendered simply "servant," "bondman," or "bondservant" to avoid confusion. Thus, in many readings the frequent mentions of servants were in all likelihood references to "slaves."

Prior to the dis-ease of the African Americans, people had been in different forms of master servant relationships for thousands of years. Societies had long maintained the practice of slavery and bondage, and were not far removed from the emotions, values, and beliefs of the people whom they enslaved.

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