Good for them.
The apologists are constantly trying to conflate the different types of slavery that have existed side by side since man had to work. To weaken the correct argument that the god of the pentateuch is a heartless slaving monster.
1: Slavery: The purchase or breeding for use by one human or organisation for the sole benefit of that entity. No rewards or freedoms as a right. The human can be bought, sold, bred and gelded, taken as a sex partner without consent. (described and accepted in several biblical texts, common but illegal today,)
2: Bond Slavery: Where an economically challenged person gives up their rights, freedoms and promise of reward for a set period in exchange for a debt or promise. (described in one or more biblical texts now mostly in 3rd world countries. Was a common way of migration to the US and Canada)
3: Apprenticeship: Where a nominally free young person is bonded to a “Master” for a set period of years while they learn a “trade” or some other expertise. Some apprenticeships require the parents or guardian to pay a bond as an upfront fee. Some pay pittance wages or none at all until “journeyman” status is reached. Typically apprentices and journeymen cannot marry or set up their own home until the end of the apprentice period. (Common)
4: Prize of War: typically young women and girls, occasionally boys, taken in warfare. girls commonly used by the adult males as sex toys or drudges. The boys depending on culture used as sex toys, or laborers doing the worst of work before dying. In some cases boys were adopted into the captors “tribe” and led rewarding lives. Fewer girl prisoners were treated as well in any culture. Rampant today.
5: Industrial slavery: When children and women were “employed” ( it was a case of the mine. the mill, the loom or starve) for a pittance in industrial centres. Often undertaking the riskiest work and being exposed to worst of all abuses. (Rampant today.)
6: Sex Trafficking: where young women, refugees or from war torn areas are persuaded with promises to migrate to more prosperous nations. Once there they are told they have an enormous repayment and must work at the owners discretion. They frequently have no right of abode for the country they are in, have had their documents stolen and are treated appallingly. (A growing industry) This category can include domestic servants. (Rampant today. )
7: Convict Slavery: Never abolished in the United States or in other “christian” countries as well as others that should know better. A very profitable industry in the US. (Rampant today. )
And of course us: Wage slavery. Add your own description.
Slavery is all around us, that is why the apologists arguments are sometimes compelling. I have missed a few categories I suspect. Wrong, utterly wrong apologetics, but compelling as they seek to soften the boundaries of acceptable behavior and descriptions in their archaic texts and proclaim their monster god as one of love and compassion…