Editing Beta Israel (section)

=== Slaves ===
{{Main|Judaism and slavery|Slavery in Ethiopia}}
[[Slavery]] was practiced in Ethiopia as in much of Africa until it was formally abolished in 1942. After the slave was bought by a Jew, he went through [[Conversion to Judaism|conversion (''giyur'')]], and became property of his master.<ref>Hagar Salamon, "Reflections of Ethiopian Cultural Patterns on the Beta Israel Absorption in Israel: The "Barya" case" in Steven Kaplan, Tudor Parfitt & Emnuela Trevisan Semi (Editors), '''Between Africa and Zion: Proceedings of the First International Congress of the Society for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry''', Ben-Zvi Institute, 1995, {{ISBN|978-965-235-058-9}}, pp. 126–27</ref>