Sentences with phrase «into debt slavery»

Student loan 90 + day delinquency rates continue to climb to historic levels and this is debt that traps most consumers into debt slavery by legislation or incorrect assumptions there are no legal remedies for problem student loan debt.

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- Daughters were considered the property of their fathers and could be either sold into slavery to pay off debt or married for a bride price (Exodus 21:7; Nehemiah 5:5; Genesis 29:1 — 10).

This can happen if the land is sold, or if people go into debt or even sell themselves into slavery.

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»).

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).

if a man and his wife went into slavery for debt together, they should go free together the seventh year, but if the man, entering bondage alone, was given his wife by his owner, even though children were born, only the man could go free; (Exodus 21:3 - 4.)

People would sell themselves into slavery or indentured servitude to clear family debts, or to get an opportunity to better oneself (especially if well educated).

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.

The private student loan lenders pushed students into lives of terminal debt slavery without much apparent regard for the borrowers.

Human trafficking involves the use of force, coercion, or fraud to induce an individual into performing a commercial sex act (sex trafficking), or to subject them to involuntary servitude, debt bondage, or slavery (labor trafficking).