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SLAVERY isn’t always about treating people as commodities and seeking to extract economic value from them. Sometimes it is about controlling others, or refusing them the freedom to live and flourish within a community.
In Mark 5.1-10 we hear the story of someone whose slavery was not economic in character. Rather he was deprived of his freedom and enslaved by the attitudes and prejudices of the people around him. Their fear and ignorance limited his potential.