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“And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man” (Mark 7:20-23).
Man’s history can be summarized as “hateful, and hating one another” (Titus 3:3), and that innate hatred has often taken the form of enslavement of one’s fellow man.
When men believed the devil’s lie and chose sin over God, they became slaves, slaves not only to sin but slaves physically. History is filled with the sad accounts of men being enslaved by their fellow man and treated as mere cattle, from the slaves under the brutal whips of the ancient pharaohs to the serfs of 17th century Europe to the dirt poor, oppressed classes of modern Asia and Africa.
Slavery has been practiced by the white man, the black man, the red man, the yellow man, and every other kind of man.
Slavery was practiced by the Babylonians, the Hittites, the Assyrians, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Persians, the ancient Brits, the Danes, the Romans, the African kingdoms, the South American kingdoms (e.g., Mayan, Aztec, Inca), the Chinese, Indians, Mongols, Mughals, Burmese, Native North Americans, the Muslim kingdoms, Spanish, Mexicans, British, and Americans. It is still practiced in some places.
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