Category: History - American
THE OLD TESTAMENT ARGUMENT 94 The Curse upon Canaan 101 Abraham a Slaveholder 104 Hagar Remanded to Slavery by God 110 Slavery in the Laws of Moses 114 Slavery in the Decalogue 122 Objections to the Old Testament Argument 124
§ 1. The flimsy character of the arguments based by the abolitionists on the Scriptures, betrays another than a biblical origin for their doctrines. They come primarily not from...
16. CHAPTER VIII.We are not propagandists of slavery. The highest wish of Virginia with reference to it was, that now it had been fastened on her against her remonstrances by others, she should...
10. CHAPTER V.§ 1. Let us appeal, then, to the Bible, to learn the moral character of Domestic Slavery. It will be well for both writer and readers, if they recall the reverence and honesty w...
14. vi. 2, seeks to evade it thus: "Nor is it fairly to be inferred fromthis passage that he (Paul) meant to teach that they (masters) might continue this (i. e. slaveholding) and be entitled to all the respect and confidence due to the Christian na...
7. CHAPTER II.This iniquitous traffick, beginning with the importation of negroes into Hispaniola in 1503, was first pursued by the English in 1562, under Sir John Hawkins, who sold a cargo a...
13. viii. 34, 35: "Whosoever committeth sin is the servant (δουλος) ofsin. And the δουλος abideth not in the house forever: but the son abideth ever." Luke xix. 13, 14: "He called his ten δουλοι, and delivered them ten pounds, etc.; but his citize...
6. CHAPTER I.To the rational historian who, two hundred years hence, shall study the history of the nineteenth century, it will appear one of the most curious vagaries of human opinion, that...
8. CHAPTER III.It has been a favourite and persistent assertion of Abolitionists, that slavery in America was an exceptional institution, and contrary to the law of nature and nations. They re...
9. CHAPTER IV.The motive for introducing the historical facts contained in this chapter is the following: That the credit of Virginia as a slaveholding State is relatively illustrated by the...
17. CHAPTER IX.These facts, then, have been established beyond question: That slavery was forced upon Virginia against her protests, by the cupidity of New England, and the tyranny and cupidit...
11. Book III., ch. vi., § 98. It is objected that polygamy is recognizedas a permitted relation in Deuteronomy xxi. 15-17, where the husband of a polygamous marriage is forbidden to transfer the birthright from the eldest son to a younger, the child...
5. CHAPTER IX.To the conquerors of my native State, and perhaps to some of her sons, a large part of the following defence will appear wholly unseasonable. A discussion of a social order tota...
12. CHAPTER VI.Inspiration always represents the New Testament as its final teaching. Revelation is there completed; and all the instruction concerning right and wrong which man is ever to ask...
2. CHAPTER VI.THE NEW TESTAMENT ARGUMENT 146 Definition of Δουλος 146 Slavery often mentioned; yet not condemned 149 Christ Applauds a Slaveholder 153 The Apostles Separate Slavery and its Ab...
3. CHAPTER VII.THE ETHICAL ARGUMENT 209 Misrepresentations Cleared 213 The Rights of Man and Slavery 241 Abolitionism is Jacobinism 262 Labour of Another may be Property 271 The Slave Received...
4. CHAPTER VIII.ECONOMICAL EFFECTS OF SLAVERY 295 Slavery and Republican Government 297 Slavery and Malthusianism 303 Comparative Productiveness of Slave Labour 317 Effects of Slavery in the So...
1. CHAPTER V.THE OLD TESTAMENT ARGUMENT 94 The Curse upon Canaan 101 Abraham a Slaveholder 104 Hagar Remanded to Slavery by God 110 Slavery in the Laws of Moses 114 Slavery in the Decalogue...