Mike Yohe wrote:
I think you need to view a timeline. In five thousand years they did not have as many conflicts as we have had in 400 years. Personally, it is my feeling that the people were so superstitious that they would be hard pressed to whip someone. Curses were very much believed in. And they had that good, bad thing going for them with religion.
Americans are unbelievably stupid when it comes to slavery in Egypt. For example. We put pictures in books showing slaves being whipped and pulling big heavy stones. Yet we will show pictures of the same time of farmers plowing the fields using oxen. I guess they want us to believe the farmers were more advanced than the pyramid builders. In the past decade research on the camps of the temple and pyramid builders have found no signs of slaves. They have found families of the builders living in the camps.
Everyone had rules for how slaves were to be treated, sold and beaten, including American slaves.
No I never read the rules you are talking about in Babylon or Egypt. Those laws were what inherence the slave would receive. Laws on marrying your slave and adopting the children. They lived in a caste system where you were charged rates by the caste you were in. And a slave was in the lower caste. So you could not charge a slave the same rate for services as someone in the upper castes. The slave systems used was more like what we would call the indentured servant that was used in the British colonies of America. The historians call them slaves. Me, I don’t see it. I see a labor method tied to a social method. Like in Egypt, if you worked at the temple (a slave) then you were also protected physically by the temple. The police forces operated differently back then. Remember the temples were also the banks and colleges of the times. And most people yet today have to pay something to be able to go to college.
The history of slavery spans nearly every culture, nationality and religion, and from ancient times to the present day. Slavery was a legally recognized system in which people were legally considered the property or chattel of another.[1] A slave had few rights and could be bought or sold and made to work for the owner without any choice or pay. As Drescher (2009) argues, “The most crucial and frequently utilised aspect of the condition is a communally recognised right by some individuals to possess, buy, sell, discipline, transport, liberate, or otherwise dispose of the bodies and behaviour of other individuals.”[2] In the American colonies and other places, an integral element was frequently the assignment of children of a slave mother to the status of slaves born into slavery.[3] Slavery under this definition does not include other forced labour systems, such as historical forced labor by prisoners, labor camps, or other forms of unfree labor, in which labourers are not legally considered property. Slavery typically requires a shortage of labor and a surplus of land to be viable.[1] While slavery has existed for thousands of years, the social, economic, and legal position of slaves was vastly different in different systems of slavery in different times and places.[4]
Slavery can be traced back to the earliest records, such as the Code of Hammurabi (c. 1760 BC), which refers to it as an established institution.[5] Slavery is rare among hunter-gatherer populations, as it is developed as a system of social stratification. Slavery was known in civilizations as old as Sumer, as well as almost every other ancient civilization. The Byzantine-Ottoman wars and the Ottoman wars in Europe resulted in the taking of large numbers of Christian slaves. Similarly, Christians sold Muslim slaves captured in war and also the Islamic World was engaged in slavery. Slavery became common within the British Isles during the Middle Ages. Britain played a prominent role in the Atlantic slave trade, especially after 1600. Slavery was a legal institution in all of the 13 American colonies and Canada (acquired by Britain in 1763). Slavery was endemic in Africa and part of the structure of everyday life. David P. Forsythe wrote: “The fact remained that at the beginning of the nineteenth century an estimated three-quarters of all people alive were trapped in bondage against their will either in some form of slavery or serfdom.”[6] Denmark-Norway was the first European country to ban the slave trade.
But, i’m sure you will continue to claim that ancient slaves loved being slaves and loved being bought and sold and and were as happy as clams! note the line above: “three-quarters of all people alive were trapped in bondage against their will either in some form of slavery or serfdom.” Note the phrase, “trapped in bondage.”