The term slavery, its implications, and how it was carried out, are a very far cry from what the term “eved” means in the Torah. Aside from the strict halachos concerning how we must treat, and cannot treat, an eved, consider the fact that an eved is actually in a separate and more exalted category than an ordinary non Jew, and you will realize that using the word “slavery”, which conjures up images of the South in the 1700’s and 1800’s (and worse), is inaccurate.
