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... of our fathers in the other ; and we fearlessly affirm , that every pretended grant of the right of property in human beings , is self - evidently null and void ; and every assertion of such a right is usurpation and robbery . Man .
... of our fathers in the other ; and we fearlessly affirm , that every pretended grant of the right of property in human beings , is self - evidently null and void ; and every assertion of such a right is usurpation and robbery . Man .
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... of our fathers in the other ; and we fearlessly affirm , that every pretended grant of the right of property in human beings , is self - evidently null and void ; and every assertion of such a right is usurpation and robbery . Man .
... of our fathers in the other ; and we fearlessly affirm , that every pretended grant of the right of property in human beings , is self - evidently null and void ; and every assertion of such a right is usurpation and robbery . Man .
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... robbed of his earnings ; just so far forth he is a mere means , a slave . True , in other respects slavery is abolished in the British West Indies . Its bloodiest features are blotted out - bat the meanest and most despicable of all ...
... robbed of his earnings ; just so far forth he is a mere means , a slave . True , in other respects slavery is abolished in the British West Indies . Its bloodiest features are blotted out - bat the meanest and most despicable of all ...
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We repeat it , the reduction of persons to things ; not robbing a man of privileges , but of himself ; not loading with burdens , but making him a beast of burden ; not restraining liberty , but subverting it ; not curtailing rights ...
We repeat it , the reduction of persons to things ; not robbing a man of privileges , but of himself ; not loading with burdens , but making him a beast of burden ; not restraining liberty , but subverting it ; not curtailing rights ...
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But to take the earner , is a compound , life - long theft - supreme robbery , that vaults up the climax at a leap — the dread , terrific , giant robbery , that towers among other robberies a solitary horror , monarch of the realm .
But to take the earner , is a compound , life - long theft - supreme robbery , that vaults up the climax at a leap — the dread , terrific , giant robbery , that towers among other robberies a solitary horror , monarch of the realm .
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Page 19 - 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 27 - 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 20 - 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 10 - 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 22 - 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 19 - 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.
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| 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 |
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