bond servant of the Canaanites, as was proper; for all the other kinds of servants were, in some way, of the Hebrew or Abrahamic lineage, descended through various channels from the blood of Shem, as before shown; who were not to be oppressed as slaves and ruled over with rigor, in that particular, as were the bond servants of the Canaanitish or negro race.
But, says one who may be opposed to the views of the writer of this book, did not the great jubilee of the Jews, which took place every fiftieth year, set all slaves free? And does not the law positively refer to the case of bondmen of the Canaanitish description, who were slaves among the Hebrews? To this we answer, that the great jubilee had nothing to do with slaves or their liberties, in any way whatever. Our reasons for this belief we shall give as soon as we have read the law on the subject of the great jubilee and its immunities. . See Leviticus xxv, 8-10, 13, as follows:
"And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years, and the space of seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty, throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his family. In the year of this jubilee, ye shall return every man to his possession."
