Bible Against Slaveholders: Slaves Bought and Sold! |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 13
Page 3
Bondage for crime . Must innocence be punished because guilt suffers penalties ? True , the criminal works for the government without pay ; and well he may . He owes the government . A century's work would not pay its drafts on him .
Bondage for crime . Must innocence be punished because guilt suffers penalties ? True , the criminal works for the government without pay ; and well he may . He owes the government . A century's work would not pay its drafts on him .
Page 7
Bondage for crime . Must innocence be punished because guilt suffers penalties ? True , the criminal works for the government without pay ; and well he may . He owes the government . A century's work would not pay its drafts on him .
Bondage for crime . Must innocence be punished because guilt suffers penalties ? True , the criminal works for the government without pay ; and well he may . He owes the government . A century's work would not pay its drafts on him .
Page 8
To use himself for his own good , is a CRIME . To keep what he earns , is stealing . To take his body into his own keeping , is insurrection . In a word , the profit of his master is made the END of his being , and he , a mere means to ...
To use himself for his own good , is a CRIME . To keep what he earns , is stealing . To take his body into his own keeping , is insurrection . In a word , the profit of his master is made the END of his being , and he , a mere means to ...
Page 10
Because the Bible in its catalogue of human actions , does not stamp on every crime its name and number , and write against it , this is a crime - does that wash out its guilt , and bleach into a virtue ?
Because the Bible in its catalogue of human actions , does not stamp on every crime its name and number , and write against it , this is a crime - does that wash out its guilt , and bleach into a virtue ?
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Other editions - View all
Bible Against Slaveholders; Slaves Bought and Sold! Friend Of Freedom and the Union No preview available - 2009 |
Common terms and phrases
Abraham accord assigned authorized became become Bible body bondmen bought called Canaan Canaanites chattel cities claim command condition crime death destroy Deut distinction domestic Egypt equally EXAMINATION existence father forced forever give hand heathen Hebrew held hired hired servants hold honor human individual inference inhabitants inheritance Israel Israelites Jewish jubilee Judg kill kind Kings labor land live Lord master meaning Mosaic system Moses nature object oppression paid permanent persons political possession principle privileges procure protection prove punished reason receive regarded regulation relation rendered respect robbed seems sell sense servants serve slaveholding slavery slaves sold Strangers suppose taken Testament thee thing Thou shalt tion unto vants verse wages wives
Popular passages
Page 17 - And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
Page 25 - 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 18 - 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 8 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
Page 1 - Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house: for indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
Page 20 - Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death : but he shall be surely put to death.
Page 17 - And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Bible Against Slaveholders: Slaves Bought and Sold! |
| Author | Friend of freedom and the prepetuity of the union |
| Publisher | Republic Office, 1849 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 4 Aug 2006 |
| Length | 8 pages |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |