It is the consensus (unanimous as far as I know) among Chazal, that
these refer to the people who he "converted" to the knowledge of G-d.
It is beyond belief that this could be construed as slaves.
Shoshanna
Genesis 12: 5 tells us that certain people came with Abraham and Lot from_______________________________________________
Harran to Canaan, who almost certainly were not members of the
immediate family
of Abraham or Lot: "the souls that they had gotten in Haran". Are these
people "slaves", who had been "bought" by Abraham and Lot in Harran? Or,
rather, are these people distant relatives of Abraham's father,
whose families were
the social equals of Abraham's father's family, and who were on a long
caravan trip out to Mesopotamia with Abraham's father's family as
security guards?
Here is the JPS1917 translation of Genesis 12: 5:
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