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"27" which, read that.

"from him, read away.

"24" 22, read 22-26.

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"16" afterwards, read afterward.
"22" and said, read saying.

8" laidest, read layedest.

"14"thus, read then.

"21"yourselves, read your members.

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PREFACE.

FOR several years I have been examining the question of slavery with great care and attention. Once a slaveholder myself, born, brought up, and educated in the midst of slaveholders and slaves, I first investigated this subject with all the zeal and energy of the warmest supporters of the so-called "peculiar institution."

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time I found myself perplexed with the results of my own arguments. I discovered my error: I became convinced that slaveholding was unrighteous: I abandoned it; and was conscientiously constrained to give freedom to upwards of thirty slaves. I have had to sacrifice a large portion of my patrimony, to exile myself from my native state, and to be cut off from the enjoyments of home, of friendship, and of brotherhood. I feel, therefore, that I have a claim to be heard.

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I know what are the struggles in a conscientious slaveholder's mind. I know his difficulties in an investigation of the subject of slavery, and I know how it is he mistakes the teachings of the Bible. trust the following pages will serve to open the eyes of some to the sinfulness of slaveholding, and be the means of emancipating many slaves.

Although I do not write this book for the scholar; but for the plain English reader; yet I have been careful not to violate the rules of a just criticism; and that I may guard the reader against any mistake, I wish here to make a few critical observations.

It is often insisted upon, and with much pertinacity, that the Hebrew "ebedh," and the Greek "doulos," mean generally "slave," and that "servant" also, in the New Testament and elsewhere, frequently means slave. Without pretending to be much of a linguist myself, I cannot but express, nevertheless, great surprise, that learned critics have suffered themselves to fall into this error. I unhesitatingly say, that neither ebedh, doulos, nor servant, ever means slave. The word servant pre

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