>>5530
Supposedly the word "slave" in the bible is misunderstood as some kind of prison colony set up, when in reality it meant "someone who pays taxes". So the Jews being slaves just meant they have to pay taxes to Pharao. I heard a discussion on this on local radio.
If you start reading the old testament there are stories of "slaves" who own farms and do business and who calls debt collectors on other "slaves", not exactly the kind of slavedom we've been made to interpret it as via movies.