# Examination of the Rev. Mr. Harris's scriptural researches on the licitness of the slave trade

Author: Ramsay, James, 1733-1789

Genre: Category: History - Modern (1750+)

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69233

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## Summary

The following Examination was drawn up in the country, from a casual perusal of Mr. Harris’s Scriptural Researches, with a view of putting them into the hands of any person, who might be employed in answering that very extraordinary work. But on coming up to town, and understanding that Mr. Harris’s reasoning had produced effects on certain people, who had not studied the scriptures, or attended to that spirit of freedom, which runs throughout the Old and New Testament, and who hitherto had suffered themselves to be reluctantly dragged along by the present prevailing enthusiasm in favour of freedom, but now eagerly seized on a pretence for abandoning the cause, it has been judged proper t...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/examination-of-the-rev-mr-harris-s-scriptural-researches-on-the-09850501/chapters/1/index.md)
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