Letters on American Slavery: Addressed to Mr. Thomas Rankin, Merchant at Middlebrook, Augusta County, VaJohn Rankin was pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Ripley and Strait-Creek, in Brown County, Ohio. His brother Thomas was a Virginia businessman. Reverend Rankin wrote these thirteen letters "with the desire of aiding and encouraging every effort for the liberation of the enslaved and degraded Africans." He rebuts the canard that blacks are an inferior race: "What people, in similar circumstances, have ever given stronger marks of genius than are exhibited by the enslaved African of the United States?" By 1838 the book had gone through at least five editions, all of which are far more common than this first edition. |
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Page 88
... hired servant shall not eat thereof . ' And when servants , after being circumcised as mem- bers of a believer's household , made a full profession of their faith by eating the passover , they were to be considered the servants of God ...
... hired servant shall not eat thereof . ' And when servants , after being circumcised as mem- bers of a believer's household , made a full profession of their faith by eating the passover , they were to be considered the servants of God ...
Page 92
... hired servants . The penitent prod- igal said , ' How many ( misthioi , hirelings , ) or hired ser- vants of my father's have bread enough . ' And 92 LETTERS ON SLAVERY .
... hired servants . The penitent prod- igal said , ' How many ( misthioi , hirelings , ) or hired ser- vants of my father's have bread enough . ' And 92 LETTERS ON SLAVERY .
Page 93
... hired servants : ' But the father said to his ( doulous ) ser- vants , bring forth the best robe , and put it on him . Luke xv . 11 , 32. The prodigal said that the hirelings were his father's , and had bread enough and to spare . This ...
... hired servants : ' But the father said to his ( doulous ) ser- vants , bring forth the best robe , and put it on him . Luke xv . 11 , 32. The prodigal said that the hirelings were his father's , and had bread enough and to spare . This ...
Page 97
... Hired servants were in that age very S. The father of the prodigal is represented 5 many of them in his service . The prodigal low many hired servants of my father's have ough ! And the Apostle James in his epistle , reproves the rich ...
... Hired servants were in that age very S. The father of the prodigal is represented 5 many of them in his service . The prodigal low many hired servants of my father's have ough ! And the Apostle James in his epistle , reproves the rich ...
Page 97
... Hired servants were in that age very numerous . The father of the prodigal is represented as having many of them in his service . The prodigal says , ' How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough ! ' And the Apostle James ...
... Hired servants were in that age very numerous . The father of the prodigal is represented as having many of them in his service . The prodigal says , ' How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough ! ' And the Apostle James ...
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Abraham admit American slaveholder Apostle argument avarice become benevolence bondage bound Bourbon county brethren Cameron Canaan Canaanites chains children of Israel circumcised color command consequently consider constitution of Kentucky creatures crime cruel cruelty curse DEAR BROTHER deprive DOULOS dreadful Egyp Egypt emancipation endure enslaved equally eternal evident evil father feelings Fleming county freedom give gospel hapless heart heathen Hence hired servants hold slaves human induce inflicted injustice innocent instances involuntary slavery Israelites Japhet justice Kentucky kind of servitude labor lashes liberation liberty love of gain master ment mind misery nation natural rights nature oppression parents permitted perpetual phemed poor slaves possess principles prohibit proprietors of slaves purchased rest of mankind Sabaoth Sabbath Schools sacred says scene shocking slaveholding soul steal sufferings suppose system of slavery tender thou thousand tion toil torturing unjust vants whip wife WILLIAM DICKEY word
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Page 84 - By faith he sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise ; for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Page 86 - 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 97 - 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 103 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 94 - 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 These things teach and exhort.
Page 98 - Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh ; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers ; but in singleness of heart, fearing God...
Page 86 - 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.
Page 8 - Look not upon me, because I am black, Because the sun hath looked upon me : My mother's children were angry with me ; They made me the keeper of the vineyards : But mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Page 108 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house ? When thou seest the naked, that thou cover him, and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh...
Page 107 - 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.