Hebrews have always seen themselves as consecrated from the rest of society.
How do you think the non hebrew, non maleslaves were treated? I doubt they were able to leave after 6 years.
The most despised people of the day were neither slaves nor slavemasters. They were the people who couldn't find steady labor.
Evidence please. Please show me some historical documentation that says slaves were not poorly thought of? Across the years slaves have been denigrated. One of the ways slavery works in a society is that it gives the lowest of the low a class of people to look down upon. As for your comment about "people that couldn't find steady labor". These people were the norm not the exception in many societies. Laborers were the back bone of most earlier societies. They worked when there was work and starved when there wasn't. You seem to have a very elitist view of history.
but what you read about in the last days of slavery was usually nothing like it was thousands of years before this.
Again some evidence to back up this statement.
I guess I didn't realize young girls liked beig sold into slavery to be raped. The term "to them for their wives" is a euphemism for rape.
That's because you aren't aware of what slavery meant in those days or perhaps even how the slavetrade worked only a few hundred years ago.
Oh really? How do you know what I know and don't know. Please do not accuse me of being unaware if you have no historical evidence to back your claim. In all my years of reading and studying, the only sources I have come across extolling the virtues of slavery have been written by the slave owners. Oh and the bible. I don't think either is particularly objective.
Most slaves were sold by their own people,
Wrong. Most slaves historical have come from conquest. In Africa the Arabs were the prime drivers of the slave trade. They continued this up until the last century. You may have noticed that you don't see many people that are descendants of slaves that are Arabic. Did people at times sell their own people into slavery? Yes assuredly so. But to make the above comment is ridiculous. You really should be careful with using absolutes like "most".
because they were slaves back in their own country before they were slaves in another.
I would really like to know your source for this tidbit.
Have you read anything on the slave trade? Have you ever read any ancient history? any history at all?
Slavery is, was and always has been a brutal practice. It is especially brutal for the women and children that were enslaved. Women AND children were raped and molested with no recourse. Slavery was used to provide labor for the most horrendous of jobs. The jobs free people did not want to do. Yes you can find stories about slaves that got wealthy or were well treated by their masters or even found their way out. These are by far the exception. Most slaves worked and died a brutal life and death.
If you want to provide some source that disputes this by all means I am willing to look at it. I suggest you do some studying on the topic.
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