Reply To: Slavery in the Torah?

HaLeiVi and Lebidik: Note that in America, all slaves were free persons who kidnapped. None were criminals, persons sold for debt, persons who sold themselves as slaves, or persons sold by their families. All were seized. A major aspect of the crisis that precipitated the civil war was that courts were starting to argue that American slaves had not been lawfully enslaved and therefore could not be held as slaves.