But in the xxth chapter, verses 3 and 4, the fact of their being enslaved by those eastern powers is plainly stated, as follows: "And the Lord said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered to the shame of Egypt."
Thus we see that in all ages, Africa has been, the great breeding house of slaves for all mankind, for at this day all Asia is full of negro slaves, the descendants of the slaves of those first ages, procured from old Canaan and Africa.
For an account of the almost countless number of Canaanitish bondmen employed in the works of Solomon, see book of Joshua ix, 23, and 2 Chron. ii, 17, 18. See also 1 Kings ix, 20-22, for an account of the bond service, levied by Solomon upon the Amorites, Hivites, Perizzites, Hittites and Jebitsites, who were all of the black race of the Canaanites, the Sons of Ham.
According to Josephus, book viii, p. 21, Solomon took the tribute due to him from a certain district of old Canaan situate between Lybanus and the city Ametha, in slaves, so many a year; these were the blacks of that country.
It appears, therefore, that Solomon considered it right to enslave and oppress in this respect, the race of Ham wherever he could find them, whether in old Canaan, Africa, or any where else, except he was in league or compact, by treaty, as appears to have been
