Studies on Slavery, in Easy Lessons

In support of the first proposition, to wit, “I will show that man cannot be justly held and used as property,” the doctor has advanced seven arguments. He says, page 18—“It is...

This conversion of a national into an appellative name appears to have arisen in the eighth century, in the oriental France, where the princes and bishops were rich in Sclavonia...

We now propose to notice the scriptural use of the word δουλος, _doulos_, and its derivatives, not only that its use may be compared with the Greek writers, but that it may be s...

meaning here. The original sense of the last word in the passage was to _sow seed_, hence to _scatter_ and _destroy_. The result of such amalgamation then is, their posterity wi...

“And when thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.” * * * “And it shall be, if it make answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall b...

At that age of the world, when one city was conquered by another, all were reduced to slavery, unless by the especial favour of the conqueror. In this instance it would have bee...

“But when we perceived that they relaxed in their zeal against the Mede, and were grown earnest in riveting _slavery_ upon allies, we then began to be alarmed. It was impossible...

“It is indeed noble, said Cyrus, to fight, in order not to be made a slave! But if a man be conquered in war, or by other means be reduced to _slavery_, and be found attempting...

“That this very day, if you behave with valour, you are henceforth free, and will gain the honourable title of Lacedæmonian allies; otherwise you must continue to be the _slaves...

“Is it truly so? You have not heard (says Socrates) that Dædalus, captured, deprived of his liberty, and torn from his country and forced into _slavery_, on account of his knowl...

“Among other things, he asked him what was his opinion of that supper, in which he had compelled a father to feed on the flesh of his child; a supper which had reduced him from...

“I surely, says Aristippus, do not place myself in slavery; but my doctrine is, that the condition equally free from the objections of those who govern and of those who are in _...

“According to the last information I have been able to procure, we are now going to invade a number of powerful cities; cities independent of one another, nor standing in need o...

“Let me add further, that when men are bent on _enslaving_, not neighbours only, but such people as are more remote, how can it be judged improper to encounter such, so long as...

“We ought to distinguish ourselves so far from _slaves_, as that _slaves_ do service to their masters against their wills; and if we desire to be free, we ought willingly to per...

“But, then, if you shall come to us, and shall appear to do any action, or give any information, in friendship and good-will to us, him will we treat as a benefactor and a frien...

“For it is a perpetual law among all men, that when a city is taken from an enemy, both the persons and treasures of the inhabitants belong to the captors.” _Ashley._

“I would have neither gold nor silver; give me Samos, my country, and deliver it from _servitude_. Since the death of Polycrates, my brother, whom Orœtes slew, it hath been in t...

“Argos, however, was deprived of so many of its citizens, that the _slaves_ usurped the management of affairs, and executed the offices of government; but when the sons of those...

“The Ionians, who ought to be free, are in a state of _servitude_; which is not only disgraceful, but also a source of the extremest sorrow to us, as it must be to you, who are...

“But I have seen, says he, people in grief and tears when in love, _slaves_ to those with whom they were in love, yet they deemed _slavery_ a very great evil when not in love.”

“Having, moreover, fetched off the seven vessels belonging to the Chians, which assisted in forming the blockade at Piræus, they set at liberty the _slaves_ who were on board th...

“Then I think we are both under great obligation to Cyrus, who, when I was captured, and chosen and selected particularly for him, thought proper not to receive me as a _slave_,...

“How then will he treat us, who have no support, and who have made war on him, with the design to reduce him from the condition of a king to that of a _slave_, and, if in our po...

“For a most cruel turn of fortune this really proved to a Grecian army; who, coming hither to _enslave_ others, were departing now with the sad alternative of fearing to be made...