What is with refusing to admit slavery is wrong?

[John V]

alpha male, I've heard the whole "Kidnapping is wrong, so American slavery is non-biblical" argument, but there are a heaping fistful of problems with that. For one thing, it ignores the fact that America bought waaay more slaves than they kidnapped.

According to the verse, sellers of slaves should be put to death, so no, they couldn't reasonably buy from them and claim to be following the Bible.

It also ignores the fact that most biblical slaves were bought or won from other nations or were born into slavery, just like most of the African slaves possessed by Americans.

You need to support this claim regarding Israel's slaves. Also, there's a difference between buying slaves and winning them through conquest.

The text also specifies that it's only wrong to kidnap men, so women and children could still be considered fair game, especially during the time period during which this was written;

The word used can refer to mankind in general (e.g.Gen 7:23), same as the English word.

furthermore, considering the tone and content of the rest of the text, it's probably only talking about kidnapping non-slave, male, Hebrew citizens and enslaving/selling them, like what Joseph's brothers did when they sold him into slavery in Egypt.

Your opinion is noted.