Sinfulness of American Slavery: Proved from Its Evil Sources; Its Injustice; Its Wrongs; Its Contrariety to Many Scriptural Commands, Prohibitions, and Principles, and to the Christian Spirit; and from Its Evil Effects; Together with Observations on Emancipation, and the Duties of American Citizens in Regard to Slavery, Volume 1L. Swormstedt & J. H. Power, 1850 - Slavery |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... relations , as a subject of discipline in the Christian Church . Our plan , then , embraces the general subject of slavery in the present volumes ; servitude and slavery as portrayed and treated in holy Scripture ; and slavery in its ...
... relations , as a subject of discipline in the Christian Church . Our plan , then , embraces the general subject of slavery in the present volumes ; servitude and slavery as portrayed and treated in holy Scripture ; and slavery in its ...
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... relations - Evasion by all champions of slavery of the real point at issue - A slavery guided by justice or love is no slavery at all - Confession of Dr. Fuller to Dr. Way- land - Dr . Fuller practically an insurrectionist and an ...
... relations - Evasion by all champions of slavery of the real point at issue - A slavery guided by justice or love is no slavery at all - Confession of Dr. Fuller to Dr. Way- land - Dr . Fuller practically an insurrectionist and an ...
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... relation of master or owner of a slave . There are but two slaveholding powers in all countries where slavery exists by law - the master and the government . A slaveholding government is one which authorizes individ- uals to deprive ...
... relation of master or owner of a slave . There are but two slaveholding powers in all countries where slavery exists by law - the master and the government . A slaveholding government is one which authorizes individ- uals to deprive ...
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... relation of master and slave . Secondly , those laws which consider the slave as a member of civil society . First . Those laws which regard the slave as property are comprised under the following twelve propositions : " 1. The master ...
... relation of master and slave . Secondly , those laws which consider the slave as a member of civil society . First . Those laws which regard the slave as property are comprised under the following twelve propositions : " 1. The master ...
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Page 134 - And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul...
Page 316 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Page 262 - Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 21 - For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still : woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; to turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless...
Page 194 - And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish ; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. 27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
Page 288 - Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church : and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Page 114 - Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong ; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work...
Page 252 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 263 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee : he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
Page 293 - Shall I not visit for these things ? saith the Lord : shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?