Bible Against Slaveholders: Slaves Bought and Sold!Republic Office, 1849 - 8 pages |
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... person , but a thing . He has no rights and can have no property . Whatever he has in his possession belongs to ... persons but things , ( thereby all the rights of pro- perty attach , even to the selling of men , women , children ...
... person , but a thing . He has no rights and can have no property . Whatever he has in his possession belongs to ... persons but things , ( thereby all the rights of pro- perty attach , even to the selling of men , women , children ...
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... person , but a thing . He has no rights and can have no property . Whatever he has in his possession belongs to ... persons but things , ( thereby all the rights of pro- perty attach , even to the selling of men , women , children ...
... person , but a thing . He has no rights and can have no property . Whatever he has in his possession belongs to ... persons but things , ( thereby all the rights of pro- perty attach , even to the selling of men , women , children ...
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... person , having rights , like the white servants among contracts , capable of acquiring and holding If so , he was ... persons to things , in which the essence of slavery consists . Man . But Abraham's servants were bought with his ...
... person , having rights , like the white servants among contracts , capable of acquiring and holding If so , he was ... persons to things , in which the essence of slavery consists . Man . But Abraham's servants were bought with his ...
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... persons selling them- selves to be servants , that is , hiring themselves out to be permanent servants , for a sum paid in advance ; and also for fathers selling their daughters to be wives , and thus providing them with a dowry . But ...
... persons selling them- selves to be servants , that is , hiring themselves out to be permanent servants , for a sum paid in advance ; and also for fathers selling their daughters to be wives , and thus providing them with a dowry . But ...
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... persons , and not as things ; they possessed property of their own , were capable of making contracts , of owing debts to others , and having debts due to them ; their wives and children were theirs , and not their masters . None of ...
... persons , and not as things ; they possessed property of their own , were capable of making contracts , of owing debts to others , and having debts due to them ; their wives and children were theirs , and not their masters . None of ...
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Abraham Amelek Amelekites annihilate articles of property authorized becoming servants Bible bought servants Canaan Canaanites cattle chattel children of Israel Chron cities command condition crime destroy Deut distinction douloi Egypt Egyptians extermination father forever Gibeonites gives precepts God's hath heathen Hebrew heir hired servants honor inference inhabitants inheritance Israel in battle Israelites Israelitish servant Jephunneh Jewish Josh jubilee kill Kings labor land land of Goshen Lord Maimonides master meaning Mephibosheth modern slavery Mosaic law Mosaic system Moses nations neighbor Old Testament Onesimus oppression patriarchal permanent servants persons possession proclaim liberty procure punished put to death raoh relation rendered robbed Roman slavery Saul sell slaveholders slaves sold stealeth stealing surely be put Targum Testament thing Thou shalt tion unto thee vants verse wages Whisky Rebellion wives xxii xxiv Zuph
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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.