Collection of Writings on the Slavery Question1838 |
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... south for its protection ; and they seize the slave who has escaped into their territories , and send him back to be tortured by an enraged master or a brutal driver . This relation to slavery is criminal and full of danger : IT MUST BE ...
... south for its protection ; and they seize the slave who has escaped into their territories , and send him back to be tortured by an enraged master or a brutal driver . This relation to slavery is criminal and full of danger : IT MUST BE ...
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... South , but with the precepts of humanity and religion . To such we offer the following explanations and assurances . 1st . We hold that Congress has no more right to abolish slavery in the Southern States than in the French West India ...
... South , but with the precepts of humanity and religion . To such we offer the following explanations and assurances . 1st . We hold that Congress has no more right to abolish slavery in the Southern States than in the French West India ...
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7th . We are charged with sending incendiary publications to the South . If by the term incendiary is meant publications containing arguments and facts to prove Slavery to be a moral and political evil , and that duty and policy require ...
7th . We are charged with sending incendiary publications to the South . If by the term incendiary is meant publications containing arguments and facts to prove Slavery to be a moral and political evil , and that duty and policy require ...
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... South Carolina . And what was the effect ? Why , that all his negroes ( and he had no small number of them ) loved and reverenced him as a father , and cheerfully obeyed him out of c . Yea , they were more afraid of a frown from him ...
... South Carolina . And what was the effect ? Why , that all his negroes ( and he had no small number of them ) loved and reverenced him as a father , and cheerfully obeyed him out of c . Yea , they were more afraid of a frown from him ...
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... south . O burst thou all their chains in sunder ; more especial- ly the chains of their sins ! Thou Saviour of all , make them free , that they may be free indeed ! The servile progeny of Ham Seize as the purchase of thy blood ! Let all ...
... south . O burst thou all their chains in sunder ; more especial- ly the chains of their sins ! Thou Saviour of all , make them free , that they may be free indeed ! The servile progeny of Ham Seize as the purchase of thy blood ! Let all ...
Common terms and phrases
abolition AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY Angola apostles barouche Bible blood bondage bondmen Canaan Christian clothing Coast colored commandment Committee Committee of Vigilance condition conscience corn cotton covet cruelty dark death divine duty emancipation enslave escape facts feel floggings give hands heart heathen hold human hundred husband inflict justice Kentucky Synod kind kingdom of Benin labor land lashes liberty live Lord Louisiana master means ment mercy moral murdered Natchez nation native nature necessary negroes neighbor never New-York night Oneida Institute oppression overseer owner parents perpetuate plantations planters principles procured punishment regard religion respect river Senegal Roman slavery Sabbath sanction SCARRED sell servants sinful Slave Coast slaveholders slaves sold souls South southern suffer Sumner county system of slavery thing Thou shalt tion trade truth unto violates whipped whole woman women words yoke
Popular passages
Page 7 - 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.
Page 6 - And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you ; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return eveiy man unto his family.
Page 3 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Page 8 - I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him? He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the Lord.
Page 11 - Behold, the hire of the labourers 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 11 - 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 8 - Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong ; that useth his neighbor's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work...
Page 17 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 19 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; if thou sayest, behold we knew it not, doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it ? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth he not know it ? and shall he not render to every man according to his works...
Page 8 - 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?