1. Primary Sources on the Origins of Colonial Slavery
The distinction is made however, in verse 44-46 that "thy bondsmen shall be of the heathen around you the children of the strangers shall be your bondsmen forever11 ", showing the similarities in the inherited and permanent status of enslavement akin to the Africans. ... Analysis of these sources shows it may be more constructive to argue the economic motives predominance and the decision to increase African supply was more rational than racial, but was bolstered by prejudiced beliefs to codify the black position as unquestionably inferior....
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