Preface

This author, absolutely knows God will reward the slaves and the perpetrators will have righteous judgment against them in a scale that only God could administrate!
 

Matthew 25:40 Jesus Speaking

The King will reply, Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.

Two outstanding links:

1.  See this link from QZ.com to know  If link is missing see this link.  There now is more people as slaves then at any time in the history of the Earth where once again Africa is the "world's epicenter".
2.  See this link on the Ten highest countries with slavery as of 2022 article.  If link is missing see this link.  This chart is from the article:

Scriptures Do Not Condone Racism

Two of the best scriptures, of many, that show that God loves:

• Everyone from every location of the world,
• Everyone of every tribe, and
• Everyone of every language.

are Revelation 7:9 and Matthew 24:14.  Both of these two scriptures, of many, without any doubt prove to all of us that racism and prejudice is scripturally wrong and evil.

Special Note: There is one scriptural passage that is sometimes used by racists groups to condone racism, which is Genesis 9:18-27.  The scriptural passage has nothing to do with racism and prejudice.

Always there is God

Three primary points:

1. Anything that all of us suffer in life can give us rewards in heaven and there is also the principles of the Age of Accountability to always remember, which in this author's opinion of the scriptures, also handles those who have never had the opportunity to know and accept Jesus Christ as their Savior.  This is important for someone in history that was a slave.
2. Absolutely no one gets away with abuse, subjugation, slavery, theft and victimization of anyone.  It is difficult to witness, hear and read about any people or a person being the victim of a racism, cultural prejudice or any abuse.  From our perspective, we do not know the FULL consequences that the guilty person will be experiencing, but they are absolutely going to be experienced with also loss of rewards in heaven, if they happen to be a Christian. 
3. Many times, in life we often want to put ourselves in the place of God, to judge someone, which is not to be done, other than in the place of jury.  We also wish we go back in time, to stop and have revenge against evil people and evil things being done.  When we understand the consequences of someone being before Jesus Christ at the Great White Thrown of Judgment, along with seeing their life being judged with consequences, of varying degrees of punishment when going to the Lake of Fire, then we will actually be very sad for those who are condemned, which is why the scriptures speak about rejoicing in Luke 15:10.

If you are a young person, then take some time to talk with an older Christian, whom is in the twilight years of their life.  If this older person has served and loves God, then God will have revealed many things where they should be able to tell you many accounts of people, they knew in their lifetime that reaped horrible consequences for evil they had done.  From our perspective, in this time period, we cannot know the consequences of those in the past who were racist, prejudice and had slaves, but the scriptures and empirical evidence from today teaches us they could not have had good lives no matter any material wealth. 

Many years ago, a famous and wealthy TV show host made the comment: "people think that money solves all problem, but in reality, it just gives you a great deal more problems."  This author, at age 59, has seen the consequences of good and bad in many people.  Additionally, it seems that the people who have the best quality lives are those who first love God and do not have a great deal of wealth.

These are just a few scriptures to keep in mind regarding racism, subjugation, cultural prejudice or any abuse:

Every Place in the World

Every place in the world, in its history has had a dominant ethnicity that with investigation can most likely be found to have deliberately or inadvertently exhibit racist and cultural prejudices.  Many people would argue that prejudices and racism is an external response to fear of others that are different.  Does it make it right?  The answer is absolutely "no".

There are becoming fewer and fewer places that remain that only contain one ethnicity and one cultural.  Consider the types of ethnicity and cultural changes that have occurred and are occurring in all geographical areas:

• Other ethnicities and cultures move into an area.
• Other ethnicities and cultures take the lowest paying jobs as they become acclimated.
• Other cultures may have the same ethnicity but slightly different cultural appearances.
• Other cultures may have the same ethnicity but different religious beliefs or lack of them.
• Other cultures may have the same ethnicity but different languages.

As already stated, it almost goes without saying that everyone should know that treating anyone of any different ethnicity or cultural is wrong.  Ignorance, apathy, selfishness, debase ideologies and fear are human attributes that are negative and are used for thought process that are:

• Us against them.
• Their cultural is destroying ours.
• Their language is inferior to ours.
• Their religious beliefs are against ours.

There is the exception, to the list above, when a cultural or religious practice that commits anything against the basic and absolute tenants of a human being such as:

• The right to exist, live, earn an income and have a place to live.
• Fairness in all areas of life including judicial and legal matters.
• Dignity and respect.
• The right to believe and think as one desires.

History Shows Us All

Recent history shows everyone that the world has had leaders that base their power and ability to gain financially through the use of racism and cultural prejudice because it is the easiest to polarize people against other people.  Not many people would disagree with this statement but the failure to recognize it when it is in their own ethnicity or cultural group is perplexing.

Slavery has always been in existence, where this link on the Hammurabi and his god given code of laws is a good example of many, many times in the past that have always had slavery.  Hammurabi is a collection of ancient laws where the slave trade was flourishing.

As examples in just recent history, consider the following very incomplete list but well-known points in history.  If we were to do an analysis that covers the entire world with the history of abuse, subjugation, slavery, theft and victimization by one group of people towards another, then this topic would be most likely thousands of thousands of pages long.

• A group of people from Germany, in the 1930s, manage to take over a whole country and spread the belief that their ethnicity is superior to all other races including other people who are of the same race but happen to speak other languages and have different cultural values.
• An overwhelming group of European settlers, for hundreds of years in the United States, would not give basic human rights to everyone of:
  (a) African,
  (b) Asian,
  (c) Irish, and
  (d) not widely known was also of Catholic ancestry. 
  This also occurred in many other places such as South Africa.
• An overwhelming group of European settlers, for hundreds of years in the United States, would not give basic human rights to everyone of Native American Indian ancestry.  There is no reasoning and excuses based on warfare between settlers of multiple European countries and the hundreds of different American Indian Tribes.
• A group of people that can identify themselves as Tribes of Jewish ancestry, that are from the same geographical area of other tribes of Muslim ancestry are targeted for mass murder for many periods of time in their entire history.
• Tribal areas, even today, in many places of Africa are targeted for slavery, sexual slavery, forced military service, pillaging and murder by other tribes that are geographically nearby.
• Christians are targeted for death in North and Central Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Southern Countries and parts of Asia by Muslims that have resulted in millions and millions of deaths in the last few decades.
• Roman Catholics openly hunted down and burned at the stake or by sword, Protestants in Europe and the Americas because they denounced many of the Roman Catholic church's beliefs.  This is documented in many sources such as Dave Hunt's book "A Woman Rides the Beast". 
• The White Slavery Trade from the Barbary Corsairs, that occurred at the same time as the African Slavery Trade, is not widely known but carried the same problems for over 1.25 million Europeans that is mentioned in the section of this topic.
• The White Slavery Trade from Ireland, by the British, also occurred at the same time as the African Slavery Trade with conditions that are described as worse than any other group of slaves.

Roman Empire Example

Biblical Scholars, in many old books proving it has always been recognized, write about the Roman Empire's slave system that built cities, unified the empire through the road system and enforced a common language.  The empire had many evils, such as slavery, but the Biblical Scholars point out that it was because of the road system and common language that the Christian Faith grew with utilization of the empire. 

With all of the countries of the entire world, participating in slavery for the entire history of the world, even unto today (discussed below), God has used the movement of people to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ.  This seems like an oxymoron statement, but with analysis, everywhere there has been great evil, such as slavery, the Gospel has spread because not everyone condoned or participated in the slave trade in places that men, women and children were brought into slavery.  God used good people to be there and speak about Jesus Christ.

Barbary Corsairs

The Barbary Corsairs were another group that were enslaving an approximated 1.25 million Europeans and anyone that they could get their hands on.  See this link for an interesting and enlightening read: https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-africa/white-slaves-barbary-002171  If the link is missing click here.

Irish Slave Trade - The Slaves that time forgot

The following textual excerpt is from a link topic on the Irish Slave trade, by John Martin from 14-Apr-2018.  The link contains more information. 

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-irish-slave-trade-the-forgotten-white-slaves/31076

African Tribes Sold African Slaves

Many countries such as Nigeria and Ghana have made public apologies for the past actions of the people in their country's actions.  Unfortunately, there is still subjugation and even slavery in some places in Africa even today.

Africa Now Has the Highest Modern-Day Enslavement

The appalling disgusting truth is the world does not know that Slavery has not ended.  Africa has the highest number of modern-day slaveries.  According to publications as of 2018, there are an estimated 9 Million Africans in slavery.   More detailed information can be read and downloaded at the Global Slavery Index website.

People Will Always Use Any Means for Power

The following diagram does not reflect true Christians and even the majority of people in the world, but sadly it has been one way of many types of cycles that has occurred everywhere on the planet.  Cultures and ethnicities have always been blended through wars, migrations, slavery and expansions. 

As of 2020, the world is in a unique phase where there are more peoples of every ethnicity, culture and religion living literally everywhere with others, which gives opportunity for evil people to gain power through victimization, propaganda and untruths.  This does not mean that there is not racism, but that there are people who use it as a basis of power for financial and political gains.

This diagram also lists, in a very high level, the events occurring that were facilitated by the Nazis in Germany to gain power; AND is also the same process that the PLO have been using against the nation of Israel today. 

In the Nazis case, the victim was portrayed as the German Citizen and one of the main causes was the Jewish People, who were blamed for many of Germany's problems.  In the PLO case, they have never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity for peace, with continued terrorism for decades, that has actually got them recognized, power and money.  It has been said that the late leader of the PLO, Yasser Arafat who was Egyptian, has killed more of his own people, that he represented, to keep them in a state of homelessness and radicalized.

(One type of many types of cycles)

Communistic, Dictatorships and Totalitarianism forms of government do not have this problem as anyone instigating, organizing and participating in any opposing actions are arrested, imprisoned and often executed.

Slavery in the Scriptures

Many Christians, as well as this author, were initially very uncomfortable reading and understanding slavery in the scriptures.  The important part to starting any study is knowing the Holy Spirit is the true author of all scriptures, so examination of the meaning of the scriptural passages of slavery will yield a peace of mind that God is not condoning evil of any kind towards human-beings:

1. The scriptures absolutely never instructed or allowed the practice of capturing by force another human-being where the captured human-being was forced into slavery.
2. The scriptures absolutely never condoned abuse of any human-being in any position of life such as a free human-being and also a slave.
3. The scriptures absolutely states to give sanctuary for an oppressed and mistreated slave.
4. If someone kidnaps a person for any purpose that includes slavery, then this kidnapper is to be put to death.

Throughout history, and even in our current modern times, there are people who use scriptural passages out of context to condone forced slavery along with mistreatment.  This entire topic has already laboriously detailed many examples of modern-day slavery that is grossly evil beyond description and still prevalent in many places in the world where the people involved in slavery are participating in an extraordinary evil sin.

As one example of forced slavery in the numerous times in history, consider the times of warfare.  In a war there are casualties, human-being physical impairments, food and crops shortages, and great expense and financial loss by both sides of a conflict.  As read in the examples in the scriptures of the Old Testament, the winning army would take prisoners for slaves along with any possessions that include possessing the land as a means of restitution and reparations because of the cost and losses in the war.  This is not condoning forced slavery, but was commonly done. 

In recent times, a great example of a restitution that happed is in the greatest war known which goes by two names:

• Great War by the Russians, or
• World War II. 
  
  Note that in the Western Theater of WWII, the Russian people had the greatest loss of life with an approximate 27,000,000 people.  In contrast, Germany had 8,800,000 deaths against all the countries they were invading.

At the end of WWII, the Russian military took German prisoners as slave labor, mostly army, to rebuild all the cities that were destroyed, including Moscow.  This author saw many famous buildings that were rebuilt by the German slave labor in Moscow during a recreational trip in 2010, and also toured the Great War's museum.  In the War Museum, amongst so many emotionally captivating exhibits, one exhibit showed the actual swastika flags and medallions used in the draping at Red Square which Russian Soldiers marched on top celebrating victory of the Great War.  (Note that this author was very emotionally moved at the museum's exhibits of the savage barbarity against Russian men, women and children murdered in the German so-called "blitzkriegs" and invasion battles, where seeing a collection of the actual relic swastika absolutely made me want to physically vomit.  After an estimated 10-years of slavery, the approximate 3,000,000 prisoners in the slave labor force began a process of being released with the option to go back to Eastern Germany, Austria, or assimilate into Russian society. Of the original 3,000,000, an estimated 1,000,000 lost their lives in the enslavement.

In the times of the Old Testament, it was a condoned and common approach for someone to give themselves into a form of servitude, ostensibly a slave, to pay off debt or even to gain something that can even be wife.  As read in Genesis Chapter 29, Jacob who later became Israel, was in servitude for fourteen years to gain Rachel where he ultimately gained Leah first, then Rachel along with two maid-servants.  Note that the maid-servants were in a type of role, that could be called a slave as they were maid-servants.  When the two maid servants, Bilhah and Zilpath, bore sons for Jacob, they became lesser-wives that were bound unto Jacob for the rest of their lives.

The following list are some of the well-known slavery scriptures, where there are many more that all have the same instructions and meanings.

Notes on the scriptural passages:

1. The book of Job is the oldest known books of the scriptures.  Job is stating that:
   (a) Both the slave and the free person have hard service in life.
   (b) The slave is longing for the evening shadows which implies the slave labors in crops and is male, but here is a time of day that a slave gets rest and freedom from laboring.
2. Job is stating that he is in fear of mistreatment of a slave where the man Job knows that God will judge himself for doing evil.
3. See the topic on Israel in bondage in Egypt and why the bondage occurred.
4. The food given at the Temple was sacred and had explicit rules for use that including the ability to consume.  The food that could be eaten by a Priest could not necessarily be eaten by someone in the Priest's family and not anyone else outside of the Priest's family.  In Verse 11 the exception is given on a slave that is purchased can eat the food that was intended solely for the uses of the Priest. 
   (a) Note that God did make provisions and exclusion such as David, before he became King in 1 Samuel 21:6, did eat of the Priestly food.  Jesus comments in Matthew 12:3 that God did not judge against David
5. God is advising the slave to submit into faithful service, where if there is any wrong done unto the slave then God will view this commendable as this is the same thing that Jesus Christ did, which leads to rewards in Heaven for the slave as restitution for the slave
6. Notice in verse 23 that the message is "do not become slaves of human beings", which in modern-times means exactly the same as it was in the times of the scriptures.  The meaning was not to become in debt, and it also implies to not cause others to become indebted to you that put yourself in the role of a slave master. 
7. Slaves should show respect to their masters so that the God believing slave does not slander God's name where the scriptures have all people to do honest work for their employer, that includes a slave master.  Notice that God is also commanding a slave master to treat their slave with respect and even more dignity.
8. This is the same meaning as point number 5 shown above.
9. This is the same meaning as point number 5 shown above.
10. Same as what the person Job was stating in number 2, and also the same as number 7.
11. This is one the best scriptures showing that God expects all of us to take care of anyone that is mistreated and especially a slave.
12. Clearly the thought of God against slavery in the since of forced slavery should cause the death of the kidnapper.  Forced slavery is the same as murder.
13. Clearly shows that increased wealth, at the expense of oppression, does NOT give happiness and in God's Judgment will lead to spiritual poverty and consequences at either the Judgment Seat of Christ or the Great White Thrown of Judgment.   
14. Masters of slaves are to act as a witness for God and to be be trusted by the slaves.

Bond Servant and Slave Meaning in the Scriptures

The scriptures have the admonition that we are to take on the role of a servant to one another and more specifically unto our God.  In some scriptures, the comparison is unto the role of a slave who loves his master and his master loves the slave, which is exactly what our God feels and shows to all of us that have trusted Jesus Christ as our personal Savior.

What to read next?

(1) Communism and Socialism vs. Democracy with Additional Thoughts and Clarity on Fascism, (2) Media's effect on Racism, Cultural and Christian Prejudice, (3) Liberalism and the arguments used, (4) Racism Test, (5) Cops Kill by Race? (6) Illegal Immigration - USA and Mexico with those who cross into the USA illegally