Collection of Writings on the Slavery Question1838 |
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... labor - to the protection of law , and to the common advantages of society . It is piracy to buy or steal a native African , and subject him to servitude . Surely the sin is as great to enslave an AMERICAN as an AFRICAN . Therefore we ...
... labor - to the protection of law , and to the common advantages of society . It is piracy to buy or steal a native African , and subject him to servitude . Surely the sin is as great to enslave an AMERICAN as an AFRICAN . Therefore we ...
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... labor of freemen rather than that of slaves , by giving a preference to their productions : and We shall spare no exertions nor means to bring the whole nation to speedy repentance . Our trust for victory is solely in God . We may be ...
... labor of freemen rather than that of slaves , by giving a preference to their productions : and We shall spare no exertions nor means to bring the whole nation to speedy repentance . Our trust for victory is solely in God . We may be ...
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... labor : he can do nothing , possess nothing , nor acquire any thing , but what must belong to his master . " " He is a chattel personal , " says the law of South Carolina , " to all intents , construc- tions , and purposes , whatsoever ...
... labor : he can do nothing , possess nothing , nor acquire any thing , but what must belong to his master . " " He is a chattel personal , " says the law of South Carolina , " to all intents , construc- tions , and purposes , whatsoever ...
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... labor is coveted , every blow he strikes is coveted ; if it were not so , he would be free . Here , then , we take our stand on the tenth commandment ; it cuts up the whole system of American slavery , branch and root ; it digs under ...
... labor is coveted , every blow he strikes is coveted ; if it were not so , he would be free . Here , then , we take our stand on the tenth commandment ; it cuts up the whole system of American slavery , branch and root ; it digs under ...
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... labor . A man may sell himself as a servant for life , it being understood that in rendering such service he is ever to be voluntary . But it is absurd to suppose that a man should sell himself to be a personal chattel , like the ...
... labor . A man may sell himself as a servant for life , it being understood that in rendering such service he is ever to be voluntary . But it is absurd to suppose that a man should sell himself to be a personal chattel , like the ...
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?