To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.
However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.