Galatians 4:8-11

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8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods. 9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? 10 You observe days and months and seasons and years! 11 I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain. (Galatians 4:8-11 ESV)

@Andy-Hubert I would say one of the clearest places this answer is found is in Romans 9:30-10:4. Chapter 10:3-4 being the real key; “For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.” Here Paul tells us that the Jews (who possessed God’s moral Law) in seeking to use that Law in order to be justified (counted/declared righteous) had instead rejected the true saving Righteousness of God. How can that be? The next verse tells us; because “Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes”. The word end here is “telos” which is the idea of goal. Paul tells us that Christ Jesus Himself is the goal of the law. We can’t miss that idea. This verse doesn’t tell us that Christ brought an end to the law as if He abolished the expressed will and chief duty of man toward God and man, but rather Christ fulfilled that express will and chief duty of man for us! In this way Christ is the goal or end of the law.
Therefore, in answer to your question;

@Andy-Hubert said in Galatians 4:8-11:

How is turning to the law, found in the Bible, a returning to slavery and idolatry, as this text seems to clearly indicate?

By turning away from the true fulfillment of that Law, Jesus Christ, and instead living under its curse, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all tings written in the Book of the Law, and do them” in an attempt to establish your own righteousness, we again become slaves and idolaters, not worshiping the Father for the salvation He has given us in His Son. Praise God for the Gospel!

How is turning to the law, found in the Bible, a returning to slavery and idolatry, as this text seems to clearly indicate?

@Williams14 You have given a helpful explanation.