Slavery

            Slavery was very common in the 1700s to 1800s.  Some slavery is still going on today with sex trafficking.  Slavery is not good and it has never been.  In the Bible there was slavery in some different cases and God delivered his people through the trying times.

            In Exodus the Israelites had been in slavery to the Egyptians for many years. God sent Moses to the Pharaoh of Egypt to rescue them, after many trials and plagues the Pharaoh finally let them go.  Slavery is terrible because it makes people work for no pay.  They could be being beaten and tossed around like a rag doll even though they are a human being made in God’s image like the ones who may be beating them.  During the 1800s ships full of slaves came to the Americas so that they could force the African Americans to work against their will.  The ships had poor conditions and little space.  Many of the prisoners/slaves died from lack of food or disease on the ship.  How can this be considered a Christian thing?  It was sometimes missionaries who did this to the African Americans.  These missionaries must not have understood what it meant when God said everyone is made in his image. 

            There are approximately 27 million people in modern day slavery today.  That includes labor slaves, sex slaves who are mainly brought in at the age of 12 to 14.  The yearly average of gross income by slaves worldly is 32 billion dollars.  A single slave may make as much as 13 – 67 thousand dollars in a single year due to prostitution.  This is probably why it is so common.  Hopefully over time the FBI can keep cracking down on these cases in the Unites States and make it a safer county.  We can pray and donate money towards the prevention and towards stopping slavery.  Hopefully we can be a Moses for these people and help get them out.