I think you should check out what the quality of life was like for a Middle Ages villein. Yes, I would say that was pretty damn bad.
My point was it was not "bad" just that it was the norm back then in many ways.
And middle ages do not = Egypt times in anyway.
Do you understand the kind of labor that was reserved for slaves? Manual agriculture is back-breaking and construction projects were even worse. Being forced to do something like that with no profit to yourself is pretty terrible, yes.
You do know that MOST presents could only get those type of jobs as well?
it was par for the course.
Also payment was a weird thing, they did not get paid no, but their needs got taken care of, many presents had it worse
You realize that the Israelites also had hired servants, right? They were treated differently from slaves, which is why they were different and had different rules that applied to them.
The fact that they had to make an injunction that stated a significantly injured slave needed to be set free suggests that, yes, beatings weren't as rare as your post implies.
I disagree, the bible also had rules on what not to eat, do you think that means it was needed?
God posted many rules, like sleeping with your sister, step sister and brother etc
they did happen to be sure but it dont make it frequent
Again I'm sure, like kings, there where many bad owners, but like kings there where also good ones.
the good ones are what the bibel says to be, so when you cite slavry pepole think of "evil" but this fortm was no more evil then a king owing evrey one in his kidnom
Remember the only thing required for slavery to = slavery is that you are "owned" by someone, nothing else is needed.
I'm sure many people lost their cool and beat their slaves, just like many lost their cool and beat their freinds\mothers by your logic since there are rules it means beating your friends and mothers where the norm?
the base point is study ancient slavery, dont use now days as its not the same
That is complete nonsense. If you were a roman citizen you were the property of no one, but you could kill your slaves (and your wife and children) if you wanted to.
The idea that people were property of a king is also completely inaccurate. There are much later things like thralldom in medieval feudalism, but that affects only landowners, not necessarily nobility, and thralls were arguably still more free than slaves.
Slaves in antiquity were somewhat better off than slaves in the US, but could still be sold or killed which is kind of bad if you think about it.
We are referring to what the bible says, i do not deny there where bad ones
how about you guys show me some proof that slavery was as bad as you make it out to be?
Many have had this augment with me before, because they act like slavery has not changed it has.
Study up on it, Rome was bad yes, but Rome also did this to Free Jews as well and Christina and heck the entire population any time they took over, they were conquers, its what they did.
