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This site from the Modern History Sourcebook of Fordham University provides a thorough discussion of the existence of slavery in early times giving the types of people who were taken as slaves and the work they performed. There were also those who opposed slavery and those who could quote references to slavery from the Bible.
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- Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)