Sentences with phrase «debt slaveries in»

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The advantages of slavery by debt over «chattel» slavery — ownership of humans as a property right — were set out in an infamous document called the Hazard Circular, reportedly circulated by British banking interests among their American banking counterparts during the American Civil War.

In The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks, Randall Robinson contends that slavery's legacy of injustice and disadvantage is «structural,» continuing to benefit whites «whose assets piled up like fattening snowballs over three and a half centuries.»

Did he command genocide, support slavery, and in demanding his debt of flesh is he Shylock's archetype?

As it seems that since Israel cought the fever then the U.S will not be far from it... unless the consumption of pork and alcohol will lazy them to the slavery they have to live with for generations to come in an ending debts.

«Biblical» slavery was either a method to allow a person to retire a financial debt (voluntary servitude) or to manage peoples in the land of Canaan that were otherwise not destroyed — though God instructed Israel to do so.

Amos condemns those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth, selling them into slavery for small debts, lying beside the altars on garments taken in pledge and not returned before night (Amos 2:6 - S).

The Jewish monarchy had never been absolute as this one is pictured as being; in Jewish law the wife could not be sold into slavery; and in Palestine torture would not have been inflicted on a man imprisoned for debt (the word translated «jailers» in v. 34 also means «torturers»).

Let's not forget Maryland (Catholics), Pennsylvania (Quakers), and I can't help but add Georgia — a southern state and the only one at the time of its founding to prohibit slavery (Oglethorpe who had made his fortune in the slave trade felt bad about how he had made his money and paid off the debts of folks imprisoned for their debts and procured them land and gave them a new chance), New York (originally a Dutch colony procured after the Dutch lost the Dutch - Anglo War, the Carolinas, and so on.

In most ancient near Eastern cultures, including Israel, unmarried women were considered the property of their fathers (or the male head - of - house), and under biblical law could either be sold into slavery to pay off debt or married for a bride price (Exodus 21:7, Nehemiah 5:5; Genesis 29:1 - 10).

This distinction appears again and again with regard to treatment of enemies, family relations, slavery, debt, and even to the selling of diseased meat.11 The laws about sacred seasons, Sabbath observance, details of sacrifice, clean and unclean foods, bulk large in all the codes recorded in the Old Testament.

Much global slavery begins as dept repayment, in which slavery results from a debt «bond» incurred by the slave or the slave's family.

I've read that in ancient Babylon, men could borrow money by offering their wife and children as collateral - to be sold into slavery if the debt wasn't repaid.

So the corp could refuse to sell or provide service to someone who was in debt to them but they could not force them into a effective slavery situation.

In the economic sphere, slavery gave way to share - cropping and debt peonage.

My brother has written about Modern Day Slavery and how being in debt can be likened to shackles around the ankles of the average consumer.

Although once perceived as a ticket to a successful future and to financial security, a four - year university degree in America has become a ticket to years of debt slavery.