Not Just the West: What is Slavery's True Story? Slavery & the Bible 1 of 2

God Honest Truth

Most people tiptoe around slavery—regardless of whether or not scripture is in the spotlight. But in this sobering and eye-opening teaching from God Honest Truth, we peel back the layers of time to examine the reality of slavery—not as it appears in Scripture and not as it’s portrayed in popular historical re-imaginings, but for what slavery actually is as it played out across the globe in history.  Join us as we embark on a journey to understand the history of slavery across the globe and across human history. We will learn about how societies have grappled with, and in many cases, continue to grapple with. We will discover various examples of enslaved populations throughout history and the systems that employed them. We will expose the raw, unfiltered timeline of slavery outside the Bible: from the Greco-Roman world and Islamic trans-Saharan caravans, to the sugar plantations of Brazil, the Arab dhow raids on East Africa, and the largely forgotten White slave markets of the Barbary Coast. No excuses, no revisionist rubbish—just the historical facts.  This study does not explore slavery as illustrated in the Torah or practiced among the people of Yisra’ĕl, but rather focuses on how manmade systems of slavery changed and spread apart from Yahweh’s instruction through history and across cultures. In an upcoming video we will delve solely into slavery as it truly is from scripture.  So prepare for truth that cuts through centuries of myth and whitewashing. Come with an open mind and a ready heart, as we uncover the God Honest Truth of slavery in history.  #Slavery #HistoricalSlavery #GodHonestTruth #BiblicalTeaching #HumanHistory #ChristianEducation #TorahBasedTeaching  Video Chapters: 00:00 Teaching Introduction Video Start Opening Remarks Conflation Types/Forms of Slavery Chattel Slavery Debt Slavery (Debt Bondage/Peonage) Contract Slavery (Indentured Servitude) Serfdom (Bind‑the‑Land Labour) Forced Labor, State or War Slavery Pawnship / Panyarring (West African Debt‑Collateral Servitude) Descent-Based Slavery Child Slavery Domestic Servitude Military Slavery Human Habit of Harnessing Mesopotamia - Code of Hammurabi Ancient Egypt Greece Rome Africa Aztecs Vikings Asia North America - Native Americans Summary  Article Post: https://godhonesttruth.com/wp/2025/08/01/not-just-the-west-what-is-slaverys-true-story-god-honest-truth-live-stream-08-01-2025/  God Honest Truth is a Messianic Ministry based in Western North Carolina. Our goal is to teach the truths of Yahweh’s word to anyone seeking to further their education and walk in faith. We believe in the inerrancy of scripture and that scripture alone, not any church decree or any word of man, can define what is and is not salvation. We will always strive to do Biblical things in Biblical ways instead of allowing the traditions of men to get in the way of scripture.  https://www.GodHonestTruth.com Team@GodHonestTruth.com  Donations: Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/GodHonestTruth

Transcript

00:00:00Alright, hit pause on the popular fairy tale.

00:00:05In this video, we're not quoting Leviticus, and we're not apologizing or trying to make

00:00:10up for anything.

00:00:11Instead, we're tracking cold hard chains across history and across civilizations.

00:00:18If you're here for comfort, or if you're here for the same old revisionism, or if you

00:00:22only have a desire for someone to tickle your ear on this subject of slavery, then leave

00:00:27now.

00:00:28In this video, we're not diving into what the Bible says about slavery, at least not

00:00:33yet.

00:00:34Instead, we're taking a wide-angle look at how slavery has been practiced throughout history,

00:00:40across different kingdoms and empires.

00:00:44This is a powerful and often too emotionally charged topic, and one that demands our honest

00:00:50attention.

00:00:51So stay tuned, because this video is the God-honest truth regarding slavery.

00:00:56And we start dusting off the lies in 20 seconds.

00:01:01Hope you got your notes ready.

00:01:06There's a lot coming to you, and it's going to be a general overview.

00:01:13But before we get into all that, I do want to let everyone know that this series is going

00:01:29to be an overview.

00:01:30I'm sorry.

00:01:31It's going to be an overview leading up to our detailed and specific video and teaching

00:01:35next week about slavery in the Bible.

00:01:38Now, what we present to you here in this video is not going to be even a drop in the bucket

00:01:45as it pertains to the information that is out there regarding slavery and history and

00:01:52also the amount of information that we collected ourselves.

00:01:56And if you'd like to see more about that, you can go to our website at godhonesttruth.com.

00:02:01Click on the post for this particular episode, and you'll be directed to the article page where

00:02:06you'll be able to find the on-demand video that you see here if you're watching on a video

00:02:11platform.

00:02:11You'll also be able to find the draw slides that you see on the video, and you can go

00:02:16through those draw slides at your own pace, which is very convenient for study time.

00:02:22Down below that, you'll also be able to see the notes that we took for this particular

00:02:25episode and also for next episode.

00:02:29We'll put them all in one notes file.

00:02:31So it's 23 pages right now, and it's going to grow, but there's so much more information

00:02:35in that notes file that we put together for you free of charge than we could put together

00:02:40here and still have it in a reasonable length of time.

00:02:45Also on that article page, we'll have the transcript when it becomes available, if that is so of

00:02:50benefit to you.

00:02:51So a lot of information, a lot of stuff there to help you out.

00:02:54So go check it out today at GodHonestTruth.com or go down below in the description, and we

00:02:59have provided a clear and convenient link for you to that article post.

00:03:04All you got to do is click on it, and it'll take you directly to that article post on our

00:03:08website.

00:03:09And that should be down there in the description, whether you're watching on a video platform

00:03:13or an audio podcasting platform.

00:03:15So go down there, click on it, and check it out today.

00:03:17Now, before we get into the main meat of this particular video or teaching, let's go over

00:03:24some basic housekeeping, some things I want to bring up first before we get into that.

00:03:31Number one, this is going to step on some toes, especially some American toes.

00:03:36And yeah, it's probably just some first world problems, but there's a particular narrative

00:03:40regarding slavery out there that a lot of people have bought into.

00:03:44A lot of rewriting of history in this particular episode, though it's not an in-depth and exhaustive

00:03:50teaching on slavery itself, it's still going to step on some toes.

00:03:55So if you are thin-skinned and you only want your particular narrative, you know where the

00:04:00off button is.

00:04:01Thank you for joining us.

00:04:02But for the rest of you, thank you for staying.

00:04:04Let's go on.

00:04:05This is definitely not going to be the end-all and be-all of what slavery is or even everything

00:04:12about slavery itself.

00:04:14So with that being said, I am no, how do you say this, I have not dedicated my life to the

00:04:22study and examination of slavery and subject of slavery.

00:04:26So I'm open to being corrected if I get something wrong, and please, by all means, feel free to let me

00:04:34know down in the comments or write to us at team at godhonesttruth.com and let us know so we can get

00:04:40that corrected.

00:04:41But like I said, I am definitely open to being corrected or educated on any particular point

00:04:47that may come up tonight if it so happens to be an error.

00:04:51Please, by all means, let us know.

00:04:53So let's go over the point of this whole series in general.

00:04:56It's going to be two videos tonight and next week.

00:04:59But the point of this series in general is because slavery in the Bible is rarely, if ever,

00:05:06talked about.

00:05:07And as a result, the topic of slavery within the Bible is not understood or is severely

00:05:12misunderstood, especially by those who do away with the Tanakh, the AKA Old Testament.

00:05:19They don't understand anything in there.

00:05:21They only understand bits and pieces about the New Testament.

00:05:24And when it comes to these more in-depth things like slavery, they have little to no understanding.

00:05:30And those who do, a lot of times they have misunderstandings.

00:05:33So this is to help correct that aspect of the Bible and slavery in general.

00:05:40Now, the point of the point of this particular video is to give a more accurate of slavery

00:05:49in general throughout history, because there are in just a secular part or the aspect of

00:05:54things, slavery in general is misunderstood sometimes.

00:05:57And hopefully we can set some things straight through this particular video.

00:06:02And without an accurate understanding of slavery in general, an understanding of slavery in

00:06:08the Bible will be even more difficult.

00:06:11When you think that all slavery is the same thing, it's not.

00:06:16We're going to get into the forms and types here in a moment.

00:06:18And you'll see that, well, I won't spoil anything.

00:06:23We'll get into it in just a moment.

00:06:24But slavery is often way misunderstood by the public.

00:06:29So hopefully this will, if it's something that interests you, hopefully this will spark

00:06:34a fire in you to go further and study any particular aspect of slavery for yourself.

00:06:39And if not, then hopefully this information will at least help put out some truth and some

00:06:47correct information so that you will be better educated for discussions in the future.

00:06:53Slavery is oftentimes presented in a biased manner.

00:06:56And I'm not speaking for any other country or culture around the world.

00:06:59This is coming from an American point of view.

00:07:01A lot of times slavery is presented in a biased manner.

00:07:06And that's just not something it should be.

00:07:09Slavery should be presented in a holistic and complete manner, not just presented.

00:07:17I should say this.

00:07:19Slavery should not just be presented as something that happened at a particular point in time

00:07:23by a particular country or culture and just to a particular group.

00:07:30You'll understand why in just a moment.

00:07:31But that is a biased way of putting it.

00:07:34And we should not teach and understand slavery in a biased manner.

00:07:38We should understand it in a holistic manner as all-encompassing.

00:07:44And it's a big subject.

00:07:45It really is.

00:07:47There's a lot of information to know and learn about it.

00:07:49So it's really hard sometimes.

00:07:51And that's why we're only doing an overview of slavery in general tonight.

00:07:54But hopefully this will help offset some of that bias that tends to happen, especially

00:07:59here in the American narrative of slavery a lot of times.

00:08:04And also, this is not an attempt to minimize any atrocities that may have occurred, regardless

00:08:10of what point in history that they occurred, regardless of which society or culture they

00:08:15occurred in.

00:08:16And it's also not an attempt to minimize any atrocities, regardless of what race these atrocities

00:08:22occurred towards.

00:08:24As you can see, it's more widespread than some people think.

00:08:30But we'll get into that in just a moment.

00:08:32Now, before we get into the deeper subject and overall, let's go over a term titled conflation.

00:08:38There's actually an actual term, conflate something.

00:08:42But what does it mean to conflate something?

00:08:45Well, according to Merriam-Webster.com, conflate means to bring together or blend or confuse.

00:08:50It also means to combine things such as two versions of a text into a composite whole.

00:08:56According to the American Heritage Dictionary, conflate means to bring together, meld or fuse,

00:09:01to combine two variant texts, for example, into one whole, or to fail to distinguish between

00:09:06or confuse.

00:09:07And this is something we should not and this is not good to conflate various subjects and

00:09:14ideas, especially when it comes to something as serious as this subject of slavery.

00:09:20We'll get into what I mean here in just a moment.

00:09:24This gives you some examples.

00:09:27When you conflate something, it means you mix or combine these different ideas, concepts,

00:09:32or pieces of information into a single whole, often in a way that blurs their distinctions

00:09:37or treats them as identical, even when they are not.

00:09:41It's taking two different things and making them seem as though they are part and parcel

00:09:45and cannot be separated and they're always been together and they're always one and the

00:09:50same thing.

00:09:51And this is not true.

00:09:52That's called conflating.

00:09:55It's like blending two separate things so thoroughly that you can't easily tell where

00:09:59one ends and the other begins, even if they should be kept separate.

00:10:05Let's go over some examples so you can understand what conflate means a little bit better.

00:10:08Number one, it's probably something we've all experienced or even done ourselves, conflating

00:10:14a person's net worth with their character.

00:10:17For example, someone might conflate wealth with goodness or assuming that because a person

00:10:22is rich, they must also be a good or moral person, even though these are distinct qualities.

00:10:29Someone's wealth or even appearance of wealth is different than the kind of person they are.

00:10:34And also, you shouldn't conflate the image of wealth with actual wealth.

00:10:39I've learned this from Dave Ramsey.

00:10:41Just because they look like they've got it all together and they are rich and stuff like

00:10:45that, it's just another loan sometimes.

00:10:48And they could be swimming in debt over their eyeballs.

00:10:51So don't conflate a person's net worth with their character and definitely don't conflate

00:10:56the image that someone portrays as to what's actually going on behind the scenes.

00:11:02It's not always the same thing.

00:11:04Another example, conflating a brand name with the product itself.

00:11:08I do this so many times and so many people do this as well.

00:11:12But many people conflate things like Kleenex with all facial tissues or Band-Aid with all

00:11:18adhesive bandages, even though these are the specific brand names for a general product.

00:11:23I do the same thing.

00:11:24I do that very thing right there where I say Kleenex, even though it's generic from the local

00:11:29grocery store, you know, or a weed eater or something like that.

00:11:34But yeah, that's an example of conflating.

00:11:37There's something, another American thing here, too.

00:11:40But news outlets sometimes conflate protest and riots, blurring the line between peaceful

00:11:46demonstration and violent behavior, which affects public perception.

00:11:49And it really does.

00:11:51If whatever's going on is on the side of that particular news outlet, they call it a peaceful

00:11:58protest, even though it's actually a violent riot.

00:12:04And anyways, we'll get on for the tangent.

00:12:07I wish they would just report it accurately.

00:12:09But hey, that's another subject for another day and not the scope of this video.

00:12:13But yeah, there's another example of conflate.

00:12:17Another example, someone might conflate socialism with communism using the words as if they mean

00:12:22the exact same thing when, in fact, they are different political systems with different

00:12:26histories and practices.

00:12:28I personally do this a lot.

00:12:30And unfortunately, I still do this.

00:12:32Listen, I really shouldn't.

00:12:33Socialism and communism are two different things.

00:12:38Now, both lead to loss of freedom.

00:12:41Both lead to massive death.

00:12:44But they are two different things.

00:12:47People often conflate law and scripture with man-made traditions.

00:12:52We've all experienced this, those of us in the messianic way of thinking.

00:12:56But they treat both law and man-made traditions as both of them as burdens when in

00:13:02truth, Yahweh's Torah is righteousness, while man's additions are what Yeshua rebuked.

00:13:09And that is so true.

00:13:10And truth be known, Torah is not actually law.

00:13:14It doesn't actually mean law.

00:13:16Torah is more akin to instruction instead of law.

00:13:21And a person may conflate the American Civil War with the fight against slavery, forgetting

00:13:26that not all Union states oppose slavery, and not all Confederate soldiers owned slaves.

00:13:32And the emancipation, which set enslaved people free here in America, did not happen until

00:13:39halfway through the Civil War.

00:13:42It was two years into the war before they put out the Emancipation Proclamation.

00:13:47So, don't conflate the Civil War in America with the fight against slavery, because it's

00:13:54not.

00:13:54Now, one of the good things and positive things that came out of the Civil War was the end

00:13:59of slavery, but it did not start because of slavery.

00:14:04And to conflate is not always bad.

00:14:07It's not always done with bad intent, anyways.

00:14:09It can happen by accident.

00:14:10We all do this.

00:14:11I myself am definitely guilty, but when done knowingly, and you know the two things should

00:14:17be separated, it becomes a tool of manipulation, fogging up truth by blending falsehood with fact.

00:14:25We saw that in the example of the news outlets calling a violent riot something like a peaceful

00:14:31protest, right?

00:14:33That can be a tool of manipulation, and in that example, they really do use it as a tool

00:14:38manipulation, and they blend falsehood with fact.

00:14:43Now, to get more on point towards tonight's particular subject, the word slavery from

00:14:50Merriam-Webster.com.

00:14:53Slavery, the state of a person who is forced, usually under threat of violence, to labor for

00:14:58the profit of another.

00:15:00A situation or practice in which people are coerced to work under conditions that are

00:15:04exploitative.

00:15:05Or number two, submission to a dominating influence.

00:15:10So that is slavery.

00:15:13Now, let's look at the definition, according to Merriam-Webster, for racism.

00:15:18One, a belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities, and that racial

00:15:23differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.

00:15:28Also, behavior attitudes that reflect and foster this belief, racial discrimination or prejudice.

00:15:33To, A, the systemic oppression of a racial group to the social, economic, and political

00:15:39advantage of another specifically.

00:15:41Or to, B, a political or social system founded on racism and designed to execute its principles.

00:15:48Here's something, again, I'm only speaking from the American perspective, but a lot of

00:15:52times the narrative here in America goes that slavery is racist.

00:15:56And that's not true.

00:15:58That's a conflation.

00:16:00Thinking that slavery and racism are intertwined when they are not.

00:16:04And you'll see that as we come up here and look at the further information in this particular

00:16:08episode.

00:16:10Slavery and racism are two different things.

00:16:12Now, they were intertwined here in America and through the transatlantic slave trade, but

00:16:19they are not one and the same thing, and we should not conflate them as such.

00:16:24So, let that be known that slavery and racism are two different things that should be kept

00:16:29apart.

00:16:30In fact, throughout most of history, a lot of particular cultures and civilizations enslaved

00:16:36their own people.

00:16:38I mean, they would come down to being enslaved because they were in debt, because they were

00:16:43taken by a neighboring tribe who were of the same ethnicity or same race.

00:16:49But it wasn't about racism.

00:16:51That didn't happen until later on.

00:16:54And yeah, we'll get into that in just a moment.

00:16:57But anyways, let's look at some types or some forms of slavery, because this is where it begins

00:17:03to get really nuanced.

00:17:05When people talk about slavery, are they meaning what kind of slavery?

00:17:10Slavery in general can encompass a whole lot of things.

00:17:14And this is something that really opened my eyes when I started doing this research into

00:17:18this particular subject.

00:17:21This a lot more nuance and a lot more in depth than what we can get into here on one particular

00:17:27episode.

00:17:29So once again, like always, and especially this time, I invite everyone out there to go

00:17:34farther than what you get in this video and do your own research and do as much as possible

00:17:40to your own satisfaction.

00:17:42So there's a lot more information that goes into this.

00:17:45This is just a kicking off point.

00:17:48So number one, the first type of slavery that we're going to look at is called chattel slavery.

00:17:55And this is probably the most common that people refer to when they talk about slavery in general.

00:18:02But chattel slavery is people are treated as personal property or chattel to be bought, sold,

00:18:09inherited, or punished without legal rights.

00:18:12This is the most recognized form of slavery in the Western world.

00:18:15The most absolute form, a human reduced to property.

00:18:19They may be bought, sold, inherited, stripped of personhood.

00:18:22Their children follow their fate found in antiquity and in the American South until abolition.

00:18:28Now, this is something as a little bit of a tangent.

00:18:31When I look at property here, especially like land and houses, stuff like that, they always call it like real

00:18:36property. You've always wondered what's the fake property that they're actually talking about.

00:18:41But no, the opposite of real property, meaning something that can't be moved, like a house or a land,

00:18:52something like that in general, that's what real property is.

00:18:55The opposite of that nowadays is referred to as personal property, both tangible and intangible.

00:19:01A personal property can also go by the name chattel, meaning movable property.

00:19:08Things like cars, clothing, computers, stuff like that.

00:19:14Just a little bit of a tangent. I thought it was interesting myself, but, you know, anyways.

00:19:20Some examples of chattel slavery is the transatlantic slave trade,

00:19:24which we're all probably familiar with and probably learned about in school.

00:19:28Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas and enslaved on plantations.

00:19:34Now, that's not completely true because it was also to England.

00:19:40It was also to Europe, various places, not just the Americas.

00:19:45Ancient Rome and Greece, big time into slavery and chattel slavery.

00:19:50They enslaved war captives and they enslaved criminals.

00:19:53And they were used for labor, entertainment, meaning gladiators fighting to the death.

00:19:59Even the women had other services that they would be used for in slavery.

00:20:05And they were used for domestic service as well in Rome and Greece.

00:20:11Even some of the men were used for those other services sometimes.

00:20:16We'll see that in just a moment.

00:20:17Chattel slavery persisted longest in the Middle East,

00:20:21with Trans-Saharan, Indian Ocean, and Red Sea slave trades continuing to traffic slaves from Africa

00:20:27until the 1960s in some Arabian Peninsula countries,

00:20:33such as Saudi Arabia and Yemen, which finally outlawed it in 1962,

00:20:38Dubai, who finally outlawed it in 1963,

00:20:41and Oman, who finally outlawed it in 1970.

00:20:45And just because various countries have outlawed slavery does not mean it's been done away with.

00:20:55I'll just put it like that.

00:20:57More information on that coming up.

00:20:59Another type of slavery that we're going to talk about is debt slavery,

00:21:03also called debt bondage or peonage.

00:21:07Like peon, right?

00:21:08This is where individuals pledge themselves against a loan,

00:21:11often with no realistic way to repay it, resulting in indefinite servitude.

00:21:16Occurs when individuals are forced to work to repay a loan,

00:21:19or when they inherit a debt from a relative,

00:21:22all depending on the culture and society they're coming from.

00:21:25This happened in places like South Asia, India, Nepal,

00:21:29where generational debt bondage in agriculture and brick kilns,

00:21:33in medieval Europe, in ancient Greece and Athens,

00:21:36in addition to the Chattel slavery.

00:21:39And this debt bondage happened until Solon's reforms saw peasants enslaved by unpaid debts.

00:21:46Ancient Near East and Mesopotamia,

00:21:48these laws allowed three years service for debtors,

00:21:51then released, but abuses still occurred.

00:21:54Didn't always release them.

00:21:56They held on to those slaves.

00:21:59This debt slavery existed in ancient societies,

00:22:01including pre-Columbian Mesoamerica,

00:22:05where people unable to pay debts could be sentenced to work as slaves

00:22:08until the debts were cleared.

00:22:11So this type of slavery was,

00:22:13it's not exactly like the previous form,

00:22:17but it is also a form of slavery.

00:22:20And, well, slavery is slavery in my opinion.

00:22:24Contract slavery.

00:22:25This is something we've probably all heard about,

00:22:28and not to give anything away,

00:22:30but keep this particular one in mind.

00:22:34Contract slavery or indentured servitude.

00:22:36A contractual deal offered often for passage,

00:22:39work, or benefit that hides coercion.

00:22:41Contracts give a facade of legality,

00:22:44but in reality,

00:22:45the person is trapped,

00:22:46often unpaid,

00:22:47with no freedom to leave.

00:22:50Things like this happen with the British colonial indentured servants.

00:22:54When people were trying to get over here,

00:22:55they didn't just have their own personal ships.

00:22:57They had to hire passage,

00:22:59and that was expensive,

00:23:00so they sold themselves into slavery,

00:23:04into indentured servitude.

00:23:06These indentured servants in North America who signed passage

00:23:09served four to seven years

00:23:11after they got here to the colony.

00:23:13Some endured abuse,

00:23:14non-payment,

00:23:15even sale of their contracts.

00:23:18So it wasn't technically sale of the person

00:23:22who would sell the contract,

00:23:24which means the person went with the contract,

00:23:26so I don't really see the difference.

00:23:28Maybe there's a...

00:23:30making a distinction without a difference,

00:23:32but anyways.

00:23:34Also, the modern forms in Southeast Asia

00:23:37and the Indian subcontinent

00:23:38were workers deceived with contracts

00:23:41and then forced into labor.

00:23:43The sad reality of the fact is

00:23:46that slavery is still going on

00:23:49in these various forms,

00:23:51even in 2025.

00:23:55It's not been done away with.

00:23:56That's something that you need to know

00:23:58and understand.

00:24:00It wasn't done away with 200 years ago.

00:24:02It's still going on today.

00:24:06Then we all have another type or form

00:24:08called serfdom,

00:24:09or bind-the-land labor.

00:24:11This is where the people

00:24:13have more rights than a slave,

00:24:16but the serfs can't be sold separately.

00:24:18They stay with the land.

00:24:21They're tied both to the land

00:24:22and the lord,

00:24:23the land...

00:24:24or the lord of the land,

00:24:25the landlord.

00:24:26They'll labor, rent, and obedience,

00:24:28but maintain personhood

00:24:30and limited mobility.

00:24:32So even if the current lord

00:24:34of that land

00:24:35sells the land,

00:24:36they're not really selling the people,

00:24:38but the people go with the land

00:24:40and therefore they've got a new lord

00:24:42who ever buys the land.

00:24:45So it's almost like a reverse,

00:24:47I should tell,

00:24:49but not really.

00:24:50I don't know.

00:24:51This happened in medieval Europe

00:24:52a lot.

00:24:53Serfs inherited status,

00:24:55and they were obliged to the manor,

00:24:57but had no rights to subsistent plots

00:24:58and limited legal claims.

00:25:00And it happened in Eastern Europe as well.

00:25:03The second serfdom persisted

00:25:05into the 19th century,

00:25:06sometimes nearing Chattel status.

00:25:09So this got pretty severe.

00:25:11Even though it's a bit nuanced

00:25:13and people want to call it different,

00:25:15it's still a form of slavery.

00:25:17So it's still slavery.

00:25:20Another type or form of slavery

00:25:22is forced labor,

00:25:23state,

00:25:24or war slavery.

00:25:25I'm sure you've probably all heard

00:25:27about this particular nuanced type of slavery.

00:25:31This is where people are compelled to work

00:25:32under threat or coercion,

00:25:34often without pay or freedom to leave.

00:25:37Some examples of that

00:25:38is in Nazi Germany

00:25:41and also the Soviet gulags,

00:25:43where people were forced by the millions

00:25:46into brutal slave labor,

00:25:49and then they would oftentimes be killed

00:25:52afterwards or during the process

00:25:55because they worked too hard,

00:25:56things like that.

00:25:57But yeah,

00:25:58another modern example of slavery.

00:26:01Also,

00:26:02modern fishing,

00:26:03mining,

00:26:04and construction industries,

00:26:05especially in Southeast Asia

00:26:06and Africa.

00:26:08Ancient emperors

00:26:09constructed war,

00:26:10conscripted war captives

00:26:11for public works.

00:26:13People like the Egyptians,

00:26:15the Babylonians,

00:26:16things like that,

00:26:17that built the pyramids,

00:26:19the roads,

00:26:20and the temples

00:26:20for that particular society.

00:26:22Contemporary,

00:26:25modern day,

00:26:26Myanmar,

00:26:26and North Korea

00:26:27are reported to use civilians

00:26:29for forced labor

00:26:30under state control.

00:26:32Don't know much about Myanmar,

00:26:34but North Korea is bad news,

00:26:36and during all my research

00:26:37and going through all these various things,

00:26:39I saw that North Korea

00:26:42was probably

00:26:42the number one culprit

00:26:44in today's world

00:26:46for slavery,

00:26:49still having slavery,

00:26:51and North Korea,

00:26:53number one.

00:26:54I believe it there.

00:26:55Another type or form of slavery here,

00:26:57pawnship or pawnyaring.

00:26:59This happened most,

00:27:00pretty much all in West Africa,

00:27:03but this is unique to parts of Africa.

00:27:06Individuals or family members

00:27:07pledged as collateral for credit

00:27:09with kinship protections

00:27:11to limit sale.

00:27:12When debts went unpaid,

00:27:14seizure or pawnyaring

00:27:15sometimes escalated

00:27:17into enslavement.

00:27:19This happened with

00:27:20West African societies,

00:27:22of course,

00:27:23pre-colonial,

00:27:24and things kind of changed

00:27:25after the ships

00:27:28and Europeans got there,

00:27:31but it was pawnship

00:27:32among the Akan,

00:27:33Yoruba,

00:27:34and Igbo people,

00:27:35if I'm pronouncing those correctly.

00:27:37When creditors seized persons

00:27:38by force,

00:27:39it was known as pawnyaring,

00:27:41used to enforce repayment

00:27:42or even feed

00:27:43the Atlantic slave trade.

00:27:46So these West Africans,

00:27:48especially West Africans,

00:27:49but others as well,

00:27:51when they would take people

00:27:52by force

00:27:53and they needed debt repaid

00:27:55and they had someone captive,

00:27:57they would sell them

00:27:58as a slave

00:27:59into the transatlantic slave trade.

00:28:01So it wasn't just Europeans

00:28:03coming in

00:28:04and taking people by force.

00:28:05They were being sold

00:28:06by their fellow Africans

00:28:07a lot of times

00:28:08because like in other parts

00:28:10of the world

00:28:11and other times in the world,

00:28:13Africa was a slave society

00:28:16and lots of slave societies.

00:28:19Slavery was already established

00:28:21in Africa

00:28:22way before the Europeans got there.

00:28:25So it just kind of went

00:28:27hand in hand at that point.

00:28:29And pawnship or pawnyaring

00:28:30is one type or form of slavery

00:28:32that existed in Africa

00:28:34pre-Europeans.

00:28:37Another type or form

00:28:38is descent-based slavery.

00:28:41This is slavery

00:28:42inherited through birth.

00:28:43Individuals are born

00:28:44into a slave class.

00:28:46This happened a lot

00:28:48within,

00:28:49well, it happened

00:28:50within the United States

00:28:52Southeast here.

00:28:54It happened also

00:28:55within Greece and Rome,

00:28:57places like that.

00:28:58But it wasn't because

00:29:00you were indebted to someone.

00:29:02It wasn't because

00:29:03you were a captive from war.

00:29:05It's just because

00:29:06you were born

00:29:07and your mother

00:29:08or your father

00:29:08was a slave

00:29:09and therefore

00:29:10you were born

00:29:11as a slave as well.

00:29:12This happened

00:29:13in Mauritania

00:29:14until recently.

00:29:16Black Africans

00:29:17born into slavery

00:29:18under Arab

00:29:19Berber masters.

00:29:21West African kingdoms,

00:29:23things like

00:29:24Mali and Songhai,

00:29:26slavery was institutional

00:29:28and hereditary.

00:29:30So, once you're

00:29:31in slavery,

00:29:33then your descendants

00:29:34are also in slavery

00:29:35as well.

00:29:37Another type

00:29:38or form of slavery

00:29:39is called

00:29:41child slavery.

00:29:43This is the enslavement

00:29:44of children

00:29:44for labor,

00:29:45even military use,

00:29:47or sexual exploitation

00:29:50as we've got

00:29:51unfortunately

00:29:52today

00:29:53with the human

00:29:54trafficking market.

00:29:55it's horrid,

00:29:57but yeah,

00:29:58it happens

00:29:58and it still happens.

00:30:00For instance,

00:30:01we got particular

00:30:02parts of Africa

00:30:03where child soldiers

00:30:04are forced to fight,

00:30:06coerced into

00:30:07armed conflict

00:30:08by rebel groups.

00:30:09You've probably heard

00:30:10various things

00:30:11on the news

00:30:11about such things.

00:30:13There's also

00:30:13child labor

00:30:14in cocoa

00:30:15and textile

00:30:15industries,

00:30:17especially

00:30:17in West Africa

00:30:18and South Asia.

00:30:20Also,

00:30:21down in

00:30:22South America

00:30:22and various places

00:30:23like that

00:30:24that do

00:30:24cocaine

00:30:25or etc.

00:30:27etc.

00:30:27I mean,

00:30:29child slavery

00:30:29and child labor

00:30:31forced child labor

00:30:32is all over the place

00:30:34even in today's

00:30:35day and age.

00:30:36We also have

00:30:37another type

00:30:38or form

00:30:39called

00:30:39domestic servitude.

00:30:42Don't take this

00:30:43too far.

00:30:43Don't confuse anything.

00:30:45Don't conflate it

00:30:46with other stuff,

00:30:47but

00:30:47domestic servitude

00:30:48is where individuals

00:30:49work in private homes

00:30:50under coercion,

00:30:52often isolated

00:30:53and abused.

00:30:55I could make a joke

00:30:56right there,

00:30:56but let's stay serious

00:30:58for this particular

00:30:59teaching.

00:31:01Yeah.

00:31:01Anyway,

00:31:02domestic servitude

00:31:03is where individuals

00:31:03work in private homes

00:31:04under coercion.

00:31:05They're forced to.

00:31:06They're often isolated

00:31:07and abused.

00:31:08This happens in

00:31:08modern Gulf states

00:31:09where migrant

00:31:11domestic workers

00:31:12face restrictions

00:31:13and abuse

00:31:13under the

00:31:14Catholic system.

00:31:16And some historical

00:31:17examples is

00:31:18you see the household

00:31:18slaves in ancient

00:31:19China and Egypt.

00:31:22Think Joseph

00:31:23when he went

00:31:24to work for Potiphar.

00:31:26He was a

00:31:27domestic servant.

00:31:29He was a

00:31:30household slave.

00:31:31He was sold

00:31:32in slavery

00:31:32by his brothers.

00:31:34So this is one

00:31:34example you can see

00:31:35from Scripture already.

00:31:37Joseph was a

00:31:39slave and he was

00:31:40a domestic slave

00:31:41to Potiphar.

00:31:43Going on

00:31:44another form

00:31:45in our last form

00:31:46we're going to

00:31:46cover here.

00:31:47This is military

00:31:48slavery.

00:31:50And this is when

00:31:51enslaved individuals

00:31:52are used as

00:31:52soldiers or

00:31:54military labor.

00:31:56This happened

00:31:57with the Ottoman

00:31:58Empire with

00:31:58especially with

00:31:59the Janissaries

00:32:00who were supposed

00:32:01to be fairly

00:32:02renowned.

00:32:03They took Christian

00:32:04boys and trained

00:32:05them as elite

00:32:06soldiers.

00:32:07The Islamic

00:32:07Caliphates also

00:32:08did pretty much

00:32:09the same thing.

00:32:10They enslaved

00:32:11Africans and Turks

00:32:12and they used

00:32:12them in military

00:32:14campaigns and kept

00:32:15their own people

00:32:16from dying.

00:32:17Another form

00:32:18of slavery.

00:32:20The Islamic

00:32:20world with the

00:32:21Mamluks meaning

00:32:22one who is

00:32:24owned were

00:32:25purchased as

00:32:26young boys

00:32:27often from

00:32:28Christian territories

00:32:29and they were

00:32:29trained as elite

00:32:31warriors just like

00:32:32the Ottoman Empire

00:32:33did with the

00:32:35Janissaries.

00:32:36But these

00:32:37Mamluks their

00:32:38status was above

00:32:39ordinary slaves

00:32:40and they received

00:32:41rigorous training in

00:32:42martial arts,

00:32:42Islamic sciences

00:32:43and court

00:32:45etiquette.

00:32:46So it sounds

00:32:47like they were

00:32:47well taken care

00:32:48of but in

00:32:49reality they were

00:32:50still slaves and

00:32:51they were military

00:32:52slaves at that.

00:32:55Going on,

00:32:56ancient Rome

00:32:57used military

00:32:58slaves.

00:32:59After a defeat

00:33:00in 216 of

00:33:01BCE, Rome

00:33:03enlisted 8,000

00:33:05young slaves into

00:33:06the army known

00:33:07as Voluntari

00:33:08or Volonis

00:33:10promising them

00:33:11freedom for

00:33:12service.

00:33:12slaves were

00:33:14generally present

00:33:14throughout Roman

00:33:15society including

00:33:16military contacts.

00:33:18Slaves were

00:33:19something big

00:33:20within ancient

00:33:21Rome.

00:33:22It was huge,

00:33:23huge practice.

00:33:25But the U.S.

00:33:25Army in the

00:33:2619th century,

00:33:28and this is

00:33:29pre-Civil

00:33:30War,

00:33:31but the U.S.

00:33:31Army functioned

00:33:32as a slave

00:33:33holding institution

00:33:34itself with

00:33:35thousands of

00:33:36enslaved people

00:33:37serving as

00:33:38officers'

00:33:40servants.

00:33:40And this

00:33:41happened even

00:33:42in the

00:33:43free states

00:33:44in the

00:33:44north.

00:33:46If you were

00:33:47a military

00:33:48officer from

00:33:49the north,

00:33:50you were from

00:33:50a free state,

00:33:51more than likely

00:33:52you still had

00:33:53a servant

00:33:54serving you,

00:33:55a black

00:33:56servant serving

00:33:57you,

00:33:58taking care of

00:33:59prepping your

00:34:00uniform or

00:34:01whatever.

00:34:02It's like a

00:34:03squire from

00:34:03medieval Europe.

00:34:05But yeah,

00:34:06the U.S.

00:34:06Army functioned

00:34:07as a slave

00:34:08holding institution

00:34:09as well.

00:34:11There were

00:34:11also what's

00:34:12known as

00:34:12comfort women

00:34:13during World

00:34:14War II.

00:34:15And this gets,

00:34:16if slavery's not

00:34:17dark enough,

00:34:18it gets even

00:34:18darker.

00:34:19During World

00:34:20War II,

00:34:21Imperial Japan

00:34:21organized a

00:34:22governmental system

00:34:23of comfort women,

00:34:25mostly Korean,

00:34:26Chinese,

00:34:26and Filipino

00:34:27women,

00:34:27who were

00:34:28forced into

00:34:29sexual slavery

00:34:30for Japanese

00:34:31soldiers.

00:34:33And yeah,

00:34:34that's bad,

00:34:35but it wasn't

00:34:35just the

00:34:36Japanese that

00:34:36done this.

00:34:36There's also

00:34:37others as

00:34:38well,

00:34:38but yeah,

00:34:39this whole

00:34:39military slavery

00:34:40and this is

00:34:41sexual slavery

00:34:42as well,

00:34:43but it all

00:34:44kind of blends

00:34:45into one.

00:34:45And like I

00:34:46said before,

00:34:47slavery is

00:34:47slavery,

00:34:48no matter

00:34:48what nuance

00:34:49title or

00:34:50label you

00:34:50give it.

00:34:51So tell

00:34:52slavery,

00:34:52indentured

00:34:53servitude,

00:34:53military slavery,

00:34:54child slavery,

00:34:56it's all

00:34:57slavery.

00:34:58Now,

00:34:59decide for

00:35:00yourself if

00:35:01all forms

00:35:03and types of

00:35:03slavery are

00:35:04bad or not.

00:35:05Don't go off

00:35:06it yet.

00:35:06Wait till

00:35:07we hear

00:35:08the information

00:35:10from next

00:35:11week about

00:35:11the Bible,

00:35:12but we'll

00:35:12get into

00:35:13that next

00:35:13week.

00:35:14Now,

00:35:15let's get

00:35:15into some

00:35:16history and

00:35:17the human

00:35:17habit of

00:35:18harnessing.

00:35:19Go over

00:35:20some various

00:35:21civilizations,

00:35:22some various

00:35:23points in

00:35:24history,

00:35:24and look at

00:35:26the undisputable

00:35:27fact that

00:35:29slavery has

00:35:29happened

00:35:30throughout

00:35:31history,

00:35:32and it's

00:35:33happened

00:35:33throughout the

00:35:34world in

00:35:35just about

00:35:35every single

00:35:37culture and

00:35:39civilization on

00:35:40earth.

00:35:41In fact,

00:35:42slavery has

00:35:43been around

00:35:44in various

00:35:44cultures and

00:35:45in history

00:35:46much, much

00:35:47longer than

00:35:48a history of

00:35:49non-slavery

00:35:50has.

00:35:51Like I said,

00:35:52it's still

00:35:52going on

00:35:52today, but

00:35:53going back

00:35:54all the way

00:35:55to the

00:35:55time of

00:35:56Mesopotamia,

00:35:57looking at

00:35:58the Code of

00:35:58Hammurabi,

00:36:00and here

00:36:01the Code of

00:36:01Hammurabi

00:36:02from

00:36:02wikipedia.org,

00:36:03it states,

00:36:04the Code of

00:36:05Hammurabi is

00:36:05a Babylonian

00:36:06legal text

00:36:07composed during

00:36:081755 to

00:36:091750 B.C.

00:36:11It is the

00:36:12longest, best

00:36:13organized, and

00:36:13best preserved

00:36:14legal text from

00:36:15the ancient

00:36:15Near East.

00:36:16It is written

00:36:17in the old

00:36:17Babylonian

00:36:18dialect of

00:36:18Akkadian,

00:36:19reportedly by

00:36:20Hammurabi,

00:36:21sixth king of

00:36:22the first

00:36:23dynasty of

00:36:24Babylon.

00:36:26And I

00:36:27invite you to

00:36:27go look

00:36:28through this

00:36:28yourself.

00:36:28It's very,

00:36:30very interesting

00:36:30the way they

00:36:31thought back

00:36:32then.

00:36:33And as you

00:36:33read through

00:36:34some of

00:36:34these laws

00:36:35in the Code

00:36:36of Hammurabi,

00:36:37there's a

00:36:38bunch of

00:36:38them.

00:36:39But you'll

00:36:39see various

00:36:40things there.

00:36:41They make a

00:36:41distinction between

00:36:42male and

00:36:42female, obviously.

00:36:44Most everyone

00:36:44does.

00:36:45But you also

00:36:47see about

00:36:48four different

00:36:48types of

00:36:49people that's

00:36:50mentioned there.

00:36:50You've got

00:36:50the royals,

00:36:52you've got

00:36:52the man,

00:36:54you've got

00:36:54the free

00:36:55man, and

00:36:55then you've

00:36:56got the

00:36:56slave.

00:36:57Royals,

00:36:58pretty self-explanatory.

00:36:59I'm thinking

00:36:59the man is a

00:37:00regular non-slave

00:37:02citizen,

00:37:03the free

00:37:03man, if I'm

00:37:04reading it

00:37:05correctly.

00:37:06The free

00:37:06man is a

00:37:06former slave

00:37:07who has been

00:37:08freed, and

00:37:09then a slave

00:37:09obviously is

00:37:10the slave in

00:37:12the particular

00:37:12situation.

00:37:14But here,

00:37:15there's a whole

00:37:15bunch of laws

00:37:17in the Code of

00:37:17Hammurabi about

00:37:18slaves, and

00:37:19here on your

00:37:20screen, I've

00:37:20actually listed

00:37:21off just a

00:37:22few of those.

00:37:24Here in law

00:37:25number 15,

00:37:26if a man

00:37:27ate a male

00:37:28or female

00:37:29slave of

00:37:29the palace

00:37:30or a male

00:37:31or female

00:37:31slave of

00:37:32a free

00:37:32man to

00:37:33escape from

00:37:34the city

00:37:34gate, he

00:37:35shall be

00:37:35put to

00:37:36death.

00:37:37Apparently,

00:37:38in the Code

00:37:38of Hammurabi,

00:37:39you cannot

00:37:40aid slaves

00:37:41going away.

00:37:44That's a

00:37:45death penalty.

00:37:47And Code

00:37:48199, if

00:37:49one destroys

00:37:50the eye

00:37:50of a man

00:37:51slave or

00:37:51break a

00:37:52bone of

00:37:52a man

00:37:53slave, he

00:37:53shall pay

00:37:54one half

00:37:55of his

00:37:55price.

00:37:56And if

00:37:57you'll read

00:37:58the surrounding

00:37:59laws that

00:38:00go with

00:38:00that, if

00:38:00it does

00:38:01the same

00:38:01thing to

00:38:01a free

00:38:02man, the

00:38:02punishment

00:38:03is a lot

00:38:03lot different.

00:38:05And then

00:38:05finally, 205,

00:38:06if a man's

00:38:07slave strikes

00:38:08a man's

00:38:09son, they

00:38:09shall cut

00:38:10off his

00:38:11ear.

00:38:13If you

00:38:13read through

00:38:13that, you'll

00:38:14see various

00:38:15laws pertaining

00:38:17to different

00:38:18things, but

00:38:19especially with

00:38:20slaves and

00:38:20citizens, things

00:38:21like that, the

00:38:22differences are

00:38:24stark.

00:38:25Slaves are

00:38:26treated a

00:38:27whole lot

00:38:27differently than

00:38:28the regular

00:38:29citizens or

00:38:30free men.

00:38:31But this is

00:38:32the Mesopotamia.

00:38:34They had

00:38:35slaves and

00:38:35they had

00:38:36codes and

00:38:36laws for

00:38:37slaves even

00:38:38way back

00:38:38then.

00:38:40Went on to

00:38:40ancient Egypt

00:38:41and ancient

00:38:42Egypt have

00:38:43slaves, obviously,

00:38:45but it wasn't

00:38:46just back in

00:38:47the Bible

00:38:48times, it

00:38:48was all

00:38:49throughout

00:38:50history.

00:38:51But anyways,

00:38:52from wikipedia.org,

00:38:53quote,

00:38:54slavery in

00:38:55ancient Egypt

00:38:55existed at

00:38:56least since

00:38:57the Old

00:38:57Kingdom

00:38:57period.

00:38:58There were

00:38:59three types

00:38:59of enslavement

00:39:00in ancient

00:39:00Egypt,

00:39:01chattel

00:39:01slavery,

00:39:02bonded

00:39:03labor,

00:39:03and forced

00:39:04labor.

00:39:05Egypt's

00:39:06labor culture

00:39:06encompassed

00:39:07many people

00:39:07of various

00:39:08social ranks,

00:39:10end quote.

00:39:11And this is

00:39:11something I learned

00:39:12also, that the

00:39:13pyramids were

00:39:14not built by

00:39:15slaves, they

00:39:16were actually

00:39:16built by

00:39:17workers who

00:39:18got paid.

00:39:20So, probably

00:39:21not much,

00:39:22probably like

00:39:24corvée labor.

00:39:25Corvée is

00:39:26another type

00:39:27or form of

00:39:27slavery, but

00:39:29anyways, going

00:39:31on looking at

00:39:32slavery in

00:39:33Egypt from

00:39:33wikipedia.org,

00:39:35quote,

00:39:35Egyptian slaves

00:39:36specifically during

00:39:37the New

00:39:37Kingdom era

00:39:38originated from

00:39:39foreign lands.

00:39:41The slaves

00:39:41themselves were

00:39:41seen as an

00:39:42accomplishment to

00:39:43Egyptian king's

00:39:44reign and a

00:39:45sign of power.

00:39:46Slaves or

00:39:47bok were seen

00:39:48as property or

00:39:48a commodity to

00:39:49be bought and

00:39:50sold.

00:39:51Their human

00:39:51qualities were

00:39:52disregarded and

00:39:53were merely seen

00:39:54as property to

00:39:55be used for a

00:39:56master's labor.

00:39:58Unlike the

00:39:58more modern term

00:39:59serf, Egyptian

00:40:00slaves were not

00:40:01tied to the

00:40:01land.

00:40:02The owners could

00:40:03use the slave for

00:40:04various occupational

00:40:05purposes.

00:40:06The slaves could

00:40:07serve towards the

00:40:08productivity of the

00:40:09region and

00:40:10community.

00:40:11Slaves were

00:40:11generally men, but

00:40:12women and families

00:40:13could be forced

00:40:14into the owner's

00:40:15household service.

00:40:17So yeah, obviously

00:40:18ancient Egypt had

00:40:20slaves because we

00:40:20read that in the

00:40:22Bible, but just

00:40:23want to put it out

00:40:24there, some more

00:40:25information about

00:40:25slavery in Egypt.

00:40:28Moving on into

00:40:29Greece from

00:40:31crunchlearning.com,

00:40:33quote,

00:40:33In ancient

00:40:34Greece, there

00:40:35were two main

00:40:36types of

00:40:36slaves, chattel

00:40:37slaves and

00:40:38state-owned

00:40:39slaves.

00:40:40Chattel slaves were

00:40:41owned by individuals

00:40:42who had complete

00:40:43control over their

00:40:43lives, including

00:40:45their work and

00:40:45living conditions.

00:40:47State-owned

00:40:47slaves were owned

00:40:49by the state and

00:40:49were used to work

00:40:50in mines, perform

00:40:51public works, or

00:40:53serve in the army,

00:40:54end quote.

00:40:56So you've got the

00:40:56military slavery, as

00:40:58well as the forced

00:41:00labor slavery, and

00:41:02the chattel

00:41:03slavery.

00:41:03So it's all there,

00:41:06even in ancient

00:41:07Greece.

00:41:08And it gets even

00:41:09worse.

00:41:10Check this out.

00:41:11From historyextra.com,

00:41:13quote,

00:41:14Treating other

00:41:15humans as property

00:41:16was part and parcel

00:41:17of Greek life, with

00:41:19enslaved people used

00:41:20across virtually all

00:41:22areas of society.

00:41:24Enslaved people were

00:41:25an integral part of

00:41:26society in ancient

00:41:27Greece.

00:41:27Greece, even

00:41:28Aristotle, arguably

00:41:30one of Athens' most

00:41:31progressive thinkers,

00:41:32referred to enslaved

00:41:34people as

00:41:35ketema

00:41:36impsukan, a phrase

00:41:39that roughly

00:41:39translates as

00:41:40animate property, or

00:41:43property that

00:41:44breathes.

00:41:45Many enslaved people

00:41:47were foreigners who

00:41:48had been captured

00:41:49during wars.

00:41:50The sons of defeated

00:41:51enemies might also be

00:41:53forced into slavehood,

00:41:54sometimes ending up

00:41:55serving the clients

00:41:57of male brothels.

00:42:00End quote.

00:42:03And take that into

00:42:05account.

00:42:06If, wow, the

00:42:08Greeks were messed

00:42:08up, I'll just leave

00:42:10it there.

00:42:11Yeah, they were very

00:42:12messed up.

00:42:12That last quote right

00:42:13there says, some of

00:42:15these boys and men

00:42:17that were captured,

00:42:18they were a defeated

00:42:20enemy when they went

00:42:21to war and they got

00:42:21defeated and the Greeks

00:42:22took them captive, they

00:42:24would be forced into

00:42:26serving at the male

00:42:28brothels.

00:42:32As far as I'm going

00:42:33with that, you probably

00:42:33already picked up on

00:42:34it.

00:42:36But then moving into

00:42:37Rome, Rome had

00:42:39slaves and all across

00:42:42the empire and all

00:42:43throughout their

00:42:43history.

00:42:44Slavery was something

00:42:45big and a big part of

00:42:47Rome itself.

00:42:49But from worldhistory.org

00:42:51quote, slavery was an

00:42:53ever-present feature of

00:42:54the Roman world.

00:42:56Slaves served in

00:42:56households, agriculture,

00:42:58mines, the military

00:42:59workshops, construction,

00:43:00and many services.

00:43:02As many as one in three

00:43:03of the population in

00:43:05Italy or one in five

00:43:06across the empire were

00:43:07slaves.

00:43:08Slavery, that is,

00:43:09complete mastery or

00:43:10dominium of one

00:43:12individual over another

00:43:13was so embedded in

00:43:14Roman culture that

00:43:15slaves became almost

00:43:16invisible and there

00:43:17was certainly no

00:43:18feeling of injustice in

00:43:20this situation on the

00:43:21part of the rulers.

00:43:23End quote.

00:43:24And you've probably

00:43:25seen that old

00:43:25Charlton Heston movie

00:43:26of Spartacus, right?

00:43:28That was about Roman

00:43:29slavery and Spartacus

00:43:30actually did exist and

00:43:32there was an actual

00:43:33slave revolt led by

00:43:36Spartacus in Rome.

00:43:38Yeah, Roman slavery,

00:43:40that was something,

00:43:41slaves were a big part

00:43:42of Roman society and

00:43:44they would serve even

00:43:46prestigious jobs

00:43:47sometimes as doctors

00:43:49or as bookkeepers

00:43:50or as government

00:43:51workers, things like

00:43:53that.

00:43:54And sometimes in,

00:43:57as a slave in Roman

00:43:57society, you could even

00:43:58live better than some

00:44:00of these citizens.

00:44:01We didn't, definitely

00:44:02didn't have all the

00:44:03rights that the Roman

00:44:04citizen did, but you

00:44:06wouldn't a lot of

00:44:08times worry about where

00:44:09your next meal is

00:44:10coming from or whatnot.

00:44:12So yeah, slavery was

00:44:14big within ancient Rome.

00:44:16Africa, and then we

00:44:18talk about Africa.

00:44:19Africa is a continent

00:44:20just to remind you,

00:44:21it's not a country.

00:44:23So not every country

00:44:24in Africa is the same

00:44:25as every other

00:44:26country, but talking

00:44:28about the continent

00:44:29of Africa and slavery

00:44:30from our history.org.uk

00:44:32quote, many African

00:44:36societies practice

00:44:37forms of slavery that

00:44:38varied greatly in terms

00:44:39of their nature and

00:44:40impact.

00:44:41Slavery was a deeply

00:44:42ingrained part of many

00:44:44African cultures.

00:44:46In some regions, slaves

00:44:47were integrated into

00:44:48households and

00:44:49communities, acquiring

00:44:50certain rights and even

00:44:51pathways to freedom.

00:44:53Slavery often resulted

00:44:54from local conflicts,

00:44:55raids, and warfare where

00:44:57prisoners of war were

00:44:58enslaved.

00:44:59Additionally, people could

00:45:01become slaves due to

00:45:02debt, punishment for

00:45:03crimes, or kidnappings.

00:45:06Many African kingdoms

00:45:07and leaders engaged in the

00:45:08transatlantic slave trade,

00:45:10trading captured

00:45:11individuals for European

00:45:12goods, such as firearms,

00:45:14alcohol, and textiles.

00:45:16End quote.

00:45:18And then from

00:45:18Africa.businessinsider.com

00:45:21quote, in the 21st century,

00:45:24the word slavery may seem

00:45:25distant.

00:45:26However, the unpleasant

00:45:27reality is that slavery is

00:45:29still in existence all

00:45:31across the world, and

00:45:32Africa is no exception.

00:45:35The pervasive existence of

00:45:36contemporary slavery in

00:45:37Africa is exacerbated by

00:45:39systemic failings in

00:45:41governance and law

00:45:42enforcement.

00:45:43Weak legal frameworks,

00:45:44corruption, and

00:45:45insufficient resources all

00:45:47impede attempts to

00:45:48eliminate slavery

00:45:49effectively.

00:45:50End quote.

00:45:52So, like we said

00:45:53earlier, something that

00:45:54this is to go against the

00:45:56American narrative a lot

00:45:57of times, but

00:45:58in Africa, slavery was

00:46:02already ingrained and

00:46:04established as part of

00:46:06African culture even before

00:46:07the Europeans got there.

00:46:09And unfortunately, slavery

00:46:11is still going on in

00:46:13Africa to this day,

00:46:15according to Business

00:46:16Insider.

00:46:18And it's unfortunate

00:46:19because a lot of times

00:46:21those types of slavery are

00:46:23horrific conditions.

00:46:25They're traded as cattle or

00:46:28chattel.

00:46:29And a lot of times within the

00:46:31African slavery, the men

00:46:33would be killed because it

00:46:34was the men who, even

00:46:36though they could work good

00:46:37or work better in general,

00:46:40work better than women or

00:46:41children, the men were more

00:46:43often to fight back or run

00:46:45away or something like that.

00:46:46So they would more often

00:46:47just kill the men and keep

00:46:49the women and children.

00:46:51And this happened during the

00:46:52European times as well when

00:46:55people were, during the

00:46:56Transatlantic slave trade, the

00:46:58Africans would trade other

00:46:59African males to the Europeans

00:47:02to be taken away.

00:47:03instead of killing them, they

00:47:05would make money off of

00:47:05them.

00:47:06A lot of times they would

00:47:07keep the women and

00:47:08children.

00:47:09But in a sense, that the

00:47:13males then would be kept

00:47:14alive, whereas if the

00:47:16Europeans hadn't been there,

00:47:18there would still be slavery

00:47:18and the men would have

00:47:20died.

00:47:21I am not going to call it a

00:47:22good thing.

00:47:23I'm not going to call it a

00:47:23positive thing.

00:47:24I'm just stating it for what

00:47:26it's worth.

00:47:28Traditional African slavery

00:47:29would kill the men, but

00:47:30once the Europeans arrived,

00:47:31they traded the males to the

00:47:34Europeans, take across the

00:47:36Atlantic, thereby keeping the

00:47:38males alive.

00:47:40But yeah, Africa, they had

00:47:42slavery before the Europeans

00:47:44came, and unfortunately, they

00:47:46are one of those parts of the

00:47:47world where they still have

00:47:48slavery going on.

00:47:50And it happens today more than

00:47:53just Africa.

00:47:53It happens in Asia.

00:47:54It happens all over the place,

00:47:55but it's still happening and

00:47:58happening in Africa even to

00:47:59today.

00:48:00Now let's look at the Aztecs

00:48:02because we've already looked

00:48:06at the Middle East with Greece

00:48:08and Rome, Mesopotamia, stuff

00:48:10like that.

00:48:11We've looked at Africa, Egypt,

00:48:13et cetera, et cetera.

00:48:15But what about the quote-unquote

00:48:17new world?

00:48:18Well, let's look at the Aztecs down

00:48:20in South America and Middle

00:48:22America, whatever you want to

00:48:23call it.

00:48:25But this comes from

00:48:25Wikipedia.org, quote,

00:48:27Slavery in the Aztec Empire and

00:48:30surrounding Mexico societies was

00:48:32widespread with slaves known by

00:48:34the Nuhatl word

00:48:35La Clotli.

00:48:38Slaves did not inherit their

00:48:39status.

00:48:40People were enslaved as a form

00:48:42of punishment after being

00:48:43captured in war or voluntary to

00:48:45pay off debts.

00:48:46A slave who was sold three times

00:48:49as incorrigible could be sold to

00:48:51be sacrificed.

00:48:53Those slaves commanded a premium

00:48:55in price.

00:48:56Anyone could be a slave, though

00:48:58commoners were more likely to

00:49:00enter slavery voluntarily.

00:49:02But because slaves were looked

00:49:04down upon, it was usually the

00:49:05last option one took to pay off

00:49:08a debt, end quote.

00:49:10And this is something that

00:49:11happened is fairly common within

00:49:13slave operating societies.

00:49:18When someone got into debt and

00:49:20they couldn't pay something off,

00:49:21they sold themselves voluntarily

00:49:23into slavery in order to pay off

00:49:26the debt and it would only be for

00:49:27a certain time.

00:49:29Generally, that was the idea.

00:49:31That was something that was

00:49:32common throughout the world, not

00:49:34just the Aztecs.

00:49:36But for those of you that didn't

00:49:37know, the Aztecs were one of those

00:49:38people who also did human

00:49:40sacrifice and slaves were a part of

00:49:44the human sacrifice as well.

00:49:47Let's go back across the pond and

00:49:49look at the Vikings.

00:49:50Vikings were big into slavery as

00:49:53well from thearcheologist.org.

00:49:56Quote, some historians now argue

00:49:58that the Vikings were responsible

00:50:00for more human trafficking in the

00:50:02period 750 to 1050 than any other

00:50:06civilization.

00:50:07Although slavery existed in some

00:50:09form in Scandinavia long before the

00:50:11Viking era, it was during this

00:50:13period that we saw a sharp uptake in

00:50:15the number of slaves.

00:50:18Viking raids, which remain infamous for

00:50:20their ferocity and scale, were

00:50:23significant sources of slaves.

00:50:25Monasteries, villages, and towns

00:50:27across Europe, particularly in the

00:50:29British Isles, were favorite targets.

00:50:32Poverty or debt could push

00:50:33individuals into slavery, either

00:50:36voluntarily or involuntarily.

00:50:38Furthermore, the children of slaves

00:50:40were automatically considered slaves,

00:50:42perpetuating this cycle across

00:50:43generations.

00:50:45End quote.

00:50:46So here we got some more themes about

00:50:49what we've already looked at.

00:50:51We got people that could go into

00:50:52slavery voluntarily or be captured

00:50:55and taken against their will.

00:50:57And we've also got that descent-based

00:51:00slavery where the children of slaves

00:51:01were automatically considered slaves

00:51:03themselves once they were born.

00:51:05So, moving on, let's look at

00:51:09Asia now.

00:51:10The Asia region.

00:51:12From academic.oup.com,

00:51:16quote, the dynamics of the West

00:51:18African and wider Atlantic slave trade

00:51:20are not that different from what we

00:51:22encounter in the Indian Ocean and

00:51:24Indonesian archipelago worlds.

00:51:26Local inequalities, caste, indebtedness,

00:51:29slave lineage, and conflicts, meaning

00:51:32warfare or punishment, were sources for

00:51:34an expanding, long-distance slave trade

00:51:36in West Africa, as well as different

00:51:38parts of Southeast Asia, South Asia,

00:51:41and the Western Indian Ocean.

00:51:43Many of these dynamics existed before

00:51:45the arrival of Europeans.

00:51:46End quote.

00:51:48And found this out during the research

00:51:51part of this particular exercise.

00:51:54But, yeah, slavery existed for a long

00:51:56time in China itself, going way back in

00:52:00the day to various different kingdoms

00:52:02and dynasties that existed, and

00:52:05well, that's the whole point of what

00:52:08we're trying to tell you here, is that

00:52:09slavery is not just something that

00:52:11happened at a particular point in

00:52:13history, not just with a particular

00:52:15country or colony, and it didn't

00:52:19happen to just one particular group of

00:52:22people.

00:52:22It happened all over the world, all

00:52:25throughout history, and this is the

00:52:26point we're trying to get across here.

00:52:28But also from walkfree.org, quote, the

00:52:332023 Global Survey Index estimates that

00:52:365.8 million people were living in modern

00:52:40slavery in China on any given day in

00:52:432021.

00:52:44This equates to four in every thousand

00:52:47people in the country.

00:52:49It is second only to India when the

00:52:51estimated number of people living in

00:52:53modern slavery is considered.

00:52:55End quote.

00:52:55That's modern estimates about slavery.

00:53:00People who are living in modern slave

00:53:03conditions.

00:53:045.8 million people enslaved in China

00:53:08today.

00:53:11Let that sink in.

00:53:14Going on, coming back to the North

00:53:16Americas and looking at the Native

00:53:18Americans here in North America.

00:53:22From worldhistory.org, quote,

00:53:24Slavery was practiced by the Native

00:53:26Americans before any Europeans arrived

00:53:29in the region.

00:53:30People of one tribe could be taken by

00:53:32another for a variety of reasons.

00:53:34This practice continued throughout the

00:53:36colonial era, aided and encouraged by

00:53:39Native American tribes themselves up

00:53:41through 1750.

00:53:43Each tribe understood itself as inherently

00:53:46superior to other tribes, and although they

00:53:49would form alliances for short periods in a

00:53:51common cause, or for longer periods as

00:53:53confederacies, they frequently warred with

00:53:56each other for goods in the name of tribal

00:53:59honor and for captives, among other reasons.

00:54:03Men, women, and children taken captive were

00:54:06then enslaved by the victorious tribe, sometimes

00:54:09for life and other times for a given number of

00:54:12years and in still other cases until they were

00:54:15adopted and became members of the tribe.

00:54:18So even here, before the colonies, before the

00:54:23arrival of the Europeans, there was slavery in

00:54:28North America.

00:54:29There was slavery in Central America.

00:54:32There was slavery in South America.

00:54:33There was slavery in Africa.

00:54:35There was slavery in India.

00:54:36There was slavery in China and Korea.

00:54:39There was slavery in Scandinavia.

00:54:41There was slavery in Europe.

00:54:43There was slavery in the Middle East.

00:54:45And this happened back in the thousands of years BCE, even the hundreds of years BCE, even the hundreds of years of the common era, all the way up through today.

00:54:56And even today, it's happened all throughout history.

00:55:00It's happened in just about every single culture and society on Earth.

00:55:06Slavery is not something that just happened to one particular people at one particular point in time in one particular location or one particular country.

00:55:16No, this is way more widespread than any of that.

00:55:20And this hopefully has opened your eyes to help you come to a better understanding of a general overview of slavery and the occurrences of slavery.

00:55:31That's a little bit about slavery around the world, throughout history and stuff like that.

00:55:36And we also went over various types of slavery as well, all in a effort to better prepare you for next week's teaching on slavery in the Bible and going over actual scriptures, early writers, early Christian writers that would reference this subject.

00:55:58All to get you ready for that.

00:55:59So hopefully that's opened up some eyes.

00:56:02Hopefully that's gave you some information.

00:56:03And if it's piqued an interest in you, definitely, I encourage you go farther in your studies, do your own research, learn more.

00:56:12And if you find anything out, let us know.

00:56:14Write us an email.

00:56:15Let us know what you found out.

00:56:17Once again, there's so much more in the notes that we didn't include or could not include in this particular teaching.

00:56:24So go check it out on our website.

00:56:25And like always, go farther in your studies on your own, even.

00:56:30So in summary, just to recap what we have covered, and it really has been a lot, and it's still only been just a drop in the bucket on this particular subject.

00:56:41But going over, just to warn you, conflate, it means to mix or combine different ideas, concepts, or pieces of information into a single whole, often blurring their distinctions or treats them as identical when they are not.

00:56:56We went over various examples of conflating and things we each individually do a lot of times, like conflating socialism with communism or conflating the brand name Kleenex or Band-Aid with the product in general.

00:57:13That's conflation.

00:57:14But when it comes to the subject of slavery, let's not conflate things that should not be conflated.

00:57:19We should not conflate slavery with racism.

00:57:22We should not conflate slavery with abuse.

00:57:24We should not conflate various things, thinking they are one and the same, because they're not.

00:57:31Slavery is its own separate subject.

00:57:33Racism is its own separate subject.

00:57:36Abuse, physical abuse, is its own separate subject.

00:57:39And those three do not go hand in hand together.

00:57:43Sometimes they occur all at the same time, but they are not one and the same thing.

00:57:48There are different forms and types of slavery that we went over during this presentation.

00:57:53However, there are even more than what we went over, and sometimes the types or the forms get different names, or they might be described a little bit differently.

00:58:06But these are the main types that I was able to find in my particular research.

00:58:11And the types we went over during this particular teaching are chattel slavery, debt slavery, or debt bondage, or peonage, contract slavery, also known as indentured servitude, serfdom, or bind-the-land labor, force labor, state, or war slavery, pawnship, or pawn-yaring, which, from what I found out, it was particularly isolated to West Africa.

00:58:37There is descent-based slavery, where you're born into slavery.

00:58:43There is child slavery, where children are enslaved.

00:58:48There is domestic servitude, where people are forced to work in domestic situations and often isolated and abused.

00:58:57And then there is military slavery that we went over in this particular teaching, where people are used for military service or military projects, things like that.

00:59:05So, slavery has been practiced by the vast majority of the world throughout the majority of history.

00:59:14In fact, you look at the overall high of history or the timeline of history, you'll see that the vast majority of history has involved slavery, much more so than points in history that did not have slavery.

00:59:31Civilizations, cultures have practiced slavery all around the world, all throughout history, and some of those that we have went over during this particular teaching is Mesopotamia, the Babylonians, things like that.

00:59:47Ancient Egypt, obviously, we read that in Scripture.

00:59:50There is ancient Greece, ancient Rome.

00:59:53There is Africa, and just about every single country in Africa.

00:59:56There are the Aztecs, and of course, also the Mayans, to a certain degree.

01:00:02There was the Vikings.

01:00:04The slavery has been practiced and still is practiced in the Asiatic region as well.

01:00:10And we saw also that Native Americans, even here in America, they were practicing and engaged in slavery even long before the Europeans came over.

01:00:20So slavery is something that is almost ingrained in just about every single society around the world, and not any country I know of or any piece of land on Earth is free from the history of slavery.

01:00:36But take all that we learned about slavery as an overview around the world in this particular video.

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