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In particular, the Talmud said that Jews should not sell themselves to non-Jews, and if they did, the Jewish community was urged to ransom or redeem the slave. [33] While Jews did take slavery as a given, just as in other ancient societies, slaves in Jewish households could expect more compassionate treatment. [48]
Judaism was the only non-Christian religion tolerated, but the Jews were discriminated against in various ways. They were prohibited from building new houses of worship, holding public office, or owning slaves. [92] The 7th century saw the Jewish revolt against Heraclius, which broke out in 614 during the Byzantine–Sasanian War.
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Jewish participation in the slave trade itself was also regulated by the Talmud. Fear of apostasy lead to the Talmudic discouragement of the sale of Jewish slaves to non-Jews, [50] although loans were allowed; [51] similarly slave trade with Tyre was only to be for the purpose of removing slaves from non-Jewish religion. [52]
He noted that the book contributes little to the scholarship in the area of history of slavery, but may be of more interest to those interested in the topic of Jewish history, and that the book is overall disappointing in not answering the question of "why a belief in the Jewish dominance of the slave trade or slave system has suddenly re ...
It is known that Jewish war captives were sold into slavery after the suppression of a minor Jewish revolt in 53 BCE, and some were probably taken to southern Europe. [16] After the enslaved Jews gained their freedom, they permanently settled in Rome on the right bank of the Tiber as traders, and some immigrated north later.
Antiochus IV issued decrees officially suppressing the Jewish religion; subjects were required to eat pork and violate Jewish dietary law, work on the Jewish Sabbath, cease circumcising their sons, and so on. [note 2] The policy of tolerance of Jewish worship was at an end. [2] [14]
While the United Kingdom did not ban slavery throughout most of the empire, including British North America till 1833, free blacks found refuge in the Canadas after the American Revolutionary War and again after the War of 1812. Refugees from slavery fled the South across the Ohio River to the North via the Underground Railroad.