“The law of Mosiah … prohibited slavery in the land of Zarahemla, for Ammon assured his converts that ‘it is against the law of our brethren, which was established by my father, that there should be any slaves among them’ (Alma 27:9). Previously it had been only by royal benevolence that slavery was not allowed in Zarahemla (see Mosiah 2:13)” (Welch, “Law of Mosiah,” 160).