OF AMERICAN SLAVERY: PROVED FROM ITS EVIL SOURCES; ITS INJUSTICE; ITS WRONGS; ITS CONTRARIETY AND FROM ITS EVIL EFFECTS; TOGETHER WITH OBSERVATIONS ON EMANCIPATION, AND THE BY REV. CHARLES ELLIOTT, D. D. EDITED BY REV. B. F. TEFFT, D. D. "Thou shalt not steal."-EIGHTH COMMANDMENT. "He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall "The law is made.. for men-stealers."-1 TIMOTHY 1, 9, 10. "Hominum fures, qui vel servos vel liberos abducunt, retinent, vendunt, vel emunt." "Every American who loves his country, should dedicate his whole life, and IN TWO VOLUMES. VOLUME I. Cincinnati: PUBLISHED BY L. SWORMSTEDT & J. H. POWER, FOR THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, AT THE WESTERN BOOK CONCERN, R. P. THOMPSON, PRINTER. 1851. m me THE NEW YORK 163444 ASTOR, LENOX AND TILEEN FOUNDATIONS. 1809. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, BY SWORMSTEDT & POWER, In the Clerk's Office for the District Court for the District of Ohio. PREFACE. THE General conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in 1848, appointed the author of these volumes to write the history of the Church for the four previous years, which involved, as a leading topic, a survey of the subject of slavery. This led him to as accurate and extensive an examination of slavery, in all its relations, as his capacity and means of information would allow. He had been, for the fifteen years previous to the last, engaged in conducting the periodical press, so that ample means of information were within his reach from this source. All the books published on slavery in this country, for the most part, form part of his library. The greater part, too, of what appeared in Britain, on the slave-trade, and emancipation, through the gift of Dr. Dixon, are in his possession. An inspection of the list of books and pamphlets, at the end of the second volume, will show, that all the important sources of information have been consulted. Before commencing, in form, the contemplated history, a careful study of the whole subject of slavery was necessary. This led to the preparation of the following volumes, on the sinfulness of slavery, which is proved from its evil origin, its injustice, its wrongs, its conflict with Christian principles and the Christian spirit, and from its evil effects on all concerned in it. The material for the preparation of another volume, on Servitude and Slavery, is now collected. This volume is intended to show that the Scripture neither sanctions nor tolerates slavery proper; that the regulations of the Mosaic code referred to servitude, so as to prevent it from running into slavery. An account of Roman slavery, 3 |