24 Dec 2022 12:34 pm
"Practically every society that possessed slaves wrote about them in its laws, and thus only a few codes can be mentioned here. The ancient Mesopotamian laws of Eshnunna (c. 1900 BCE) and the Code of Hammurabi had a number of articles devoted to slavery, as did the Pentateuch. In ancient India the Laws of Manu of the 1st century BCE contained numerous laws on slaves."
https://www.britannica.com/topic/slaver ... of-slavery
If you killed one of my slaves, ... it would only be fair that I would get to kill one of yours.