This MOU between RNC and AFN further demonstrates our desire to strengthen relationships, build understanding and create sustainable community benefits as we progress the development of the Dumont project.
173-174). Godâs laws in the Old Testament not only regulated slavery (so that those enslaved would be given many rights that they otherwise would not have had), but they also supplied the means whereby fairness could be meted out with regard to criminal activity and debt.T]here is no reasonable doubt that the New Testament, like the Old, not only tolerated chattel slavery (the form prevalent in the Greco-Roman world of Paulâs time) but helped to perpetuate it by making the slavesâ obedience to their masters a religious duty.
In November 1718, Peter the Great introduced a soul tax on all males (except the clergy and nobility) with the Old Believers paying double. Peter the Great, as with the overthrown Golitisin, saw the Old Believers as a throw back to a time in Russia Peter wanted to move on from. If a male from a village took flight to avoid paying the tax, the village itself had to make up the loss.