Slavery is a legal economic system with involuntary servitude,
such that the people held in bondage must work for their owner,
and can be bought and sold (see slave trade). Legally, the slave
has limited rights. For example, it was a crime in the American
South to kill or maim a slave, except in self-defense. In the
American South, slavery normally was a lifetime condition, and
children born to slave mothers automatically became slaves of
the owner. In human history, slavery originated when people were
captured in warfare. Secondarily, slavery resulted when some
able-bodied people became so poor through debts that some
wealthy people claimed them as property at least until they
worked off their debts. The Year of Jubillee was instituted by
God for His own nation in order to prevent slavery from becoming
a means by which cleverly unscrupulous, or cleverly ignorant,
people made a living, such as happened in the American South. In
America the vast majority of slaves were African blacks, and
many of these had bee