In today’s culture it seems that the word “servanthood” takes on a bad connotation. It seems that some people want to take advantage of others and even mean to do them harm.

The world’s history is full of horrible stories of slavery. The conquering army would kill some people and take others as slaves. Some people think it is OK to enslave others. Our country fought a Civil War to keep the Union together and to abolish slavery of Black people. Religion has not been spared with some thinking that their religion was right and the others were wrong. And so they enslaved and killed people.

I remember hearing about my great-grandmother who was an indentured servant for seven........

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