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... human gore , and then , with their crimson fingers , turn over the leaves of the Bible to find a sanction for the deed . We have fallen upon evil times . Men have been found who do not scruple to tear off the seals which our fathers set ...
... human gore , and then , with their crimson fingers , turn over the leaves of the Bible to find a sanction for the deed . We have fallen upon evil times . Men have been found who do not scruple to tear off the seals which our fathers set ...
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... human nature . " As far back as history gives us a record of the race , we find proofs of the exist- ence of slavery . Immediately after the deluge , re- ference is made to it , ( see Gen. ix . 25 , ) and from that period , throughout ...
... human nature . " As far back as history gives us a record of the race , we find proofs of the exist- ence of slavery . Immediately after the deluge , re- ference is made to it , ( see Gen. ix . 25 , ) and from that period , throughout ...
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... human reason had not emerged from the indistinctness of its dawn , when the rights of property were but dubiously understood , and when the skill and cou- rage required in piratical incursions into neighbour- ing nations were regarded ...
... human reason had not emerged from the indistinctness of its dawn , when the rights of property were but dubiously understood , and when the skill and cou- rage required in piratical incursions into neighbour- ing nations were regarded ...
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... human species . Homer refers to Cyprus and Egypt as the common marts for slaves in the Trojan war . The traffic was also prac- tised , at that time , in many of the islands of the Egean sea . Tyre and Sidon are described by the ...
... human species . Homer refers to Cyprus and Egypt as the common marts for slaves in the Trojan war . The traffic was also prac- tised , at that time , in many of the islands of the Egean sea . Tyre and Sidon are described by the ...
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... humanity to slaves . In no place were they allowed so many privileges or treated with so much kindness . De- mosthenes , in his Second Philippic , states that " the condition of a slave in Athens was preferable to that of a free citizen ...
... humanity to slaves . In no place were they allowed so many privileges or treated with so much kindness . De- mosthenes , in his Second Philippic , states that " the condition of a slave in Athens was preferable to that of a free citizen ...
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Page 96 - Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and His doctrine be not blasphemed. And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren ; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit.
Page 91 - Moreover, of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land; and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever; but over your brethren, the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Page 55 - ... and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which HE has deprived them, by murdering the people...
Page 108 - There is however a circumstance attending these Colonies, which in my opinion fully counterbalances this difference, and makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the Northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas, they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege.
Page 89 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 90 - And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
Page 97 - Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. 10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds...
Page 96 - That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus. 7 For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
Page 55 - This piratical warfare — the opprobrium of infidel powers — is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 25 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession.