As someone who researches slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world, especially in the Bible, I often hear remarks like, 'Slavery was totally different back then, right?' 'Well, it couldn't have been that bad.' 'Couldn't slaves buy their freedom?'
But to understand slavery from that era—or to combat slavery today—we also need to understand the longer history of involuntary labor. As
Forms of enslavement and involuntary labor in the ancient Near East, for example—areas such as Egypt, Syria and Iran—were not always chattel slavery, in which enslaved people were considered property. Rather, some people were temporarily enslavedHowever, this was not the case for all people enslaved in the ancient Near East, and certainly not, where millions were trafficked and forced to labor in domestic, urban and agricultural settings.
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