AN INQUIRY INTO THE SCRIPTURAL VIEWS OF SLAVERY. BY ALBERT BARNES. = Τὴν ἐλευθερίαν ἑλοίμην ἂν ἀντὶ ὧν ἔχω πάντων καὶ ἄλλων πολλαπλασίων. XENOPH. Anab. lib. i. c. vii. 3. PHILADELPHIA: PARRY & MCMILLAN, SUCCESSORS TO A. HART, LATE CAREY & HART. 1855. Republished by Negro History Press - P. O. Box 5129 – Detroit, Michigan 48236 - E449 B198 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1846, by ALBERT BARNES, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. INDIANA UNIVERSITY LIBRARU Paper used in this edition is 1-26-70 CHAP. I. Reasons why the appeal on the subject of Slavery should 2. The subject of slavery is one on which the Bible has legis- 5. Because it is by such an appeal that the advocates of slavery endeavour to defend the system CHAP. II. What constitutes Slavery? (1.) Not a mere condition of apprenticeship (5.) Does not pertain wholly to a legislature to regulate (6.) Not a condition like that of the serfs of Russia, &c. 1. Is wholly involuntary on the part of the slave 2. Is property claimed in that which belongs to him, but which 3. Is a right of property in all that pertains to the slave 4. Is a right of property in his services without equivalent or |