The Slavery Question

Our Lord's New Testament is the bulwark of human freedom. Its great, broad, solid truths constitute an impregnable foundation for a temple of liberty capacious enough to hold th...

The christian church ought to be a faithful exponent of the benevolent spirit and doctrines of Jesus Christ. Liberty, truth and humanity, though insulted, betrayed and proscribe...

It is claimed by the advocates of human bondage that in the law delivered by Moses for the government of the children of Israel, until the establishment of the kingdom of Christ...

On the continent of America and adjacent Islands there are more than seven millions of slaves. Between three and four millions of these are enslaved by the most liberal, enlight...

4. _Slavery utterly impoverishes its victims._ The earth is an inheritance bestowed upon man by the common Father of all; hence every human being has an indefeasible right to li...

We will now enter more definitely into an examination of that terrible institution which practically justifies the African slave-trade by holding on to its victims and substitut...

We shall now proceed to show what we conceive to be the true position of a Christian church in relation to slavery. It has been demonstrated that slavery is a complicated and mo...

The next Bible argument for slavery, usually adduced, is founded upon the assumption that the patriarchs were slaveholders, and particular stress is placed upon the example of A...

"Long has thy night of sorrow been, Without a star to cheer the scene. Nay; there was One that watched and wept, When thou didst think all mercy slept; That eye which beams with...

1. It has been objected that fellowship should not be withdrawn from _all_ slaveholders, because some of them are exceedingly kind to their slaves. To this it may be answered th...

If we turn our eye towards the political horizon we shall find it overspread with heavy clouds portentous of evil to the oppressed. The government of the United States is intens...

That we may proceed intelligently in the discussion of the subject upon which we have entered, it is important to understand precisely what American slavery is. Some learned men...

Civil government is necessary to the preservation, prosperity and safety of society. In some important sense, "the powers that be, are ordained of God." It does not appear that...

3. _Slavery disregards the parental and filial relations._ The family is a type of heaven. It is the foundation of the social system--of social order, refinement and happiness....

As the laws provide for the degradation of the slave to a state of the most stupid ignorance, it would naturally be supposed that little would be required in the way of obedienc...

Many slaveholders and their apologists have sought to find authority for the "enormity and crime" of slavery, in the Holy Bible. And we are not surprised that the vile oppressor...

The government intensely pro-slavery--Political horizon lowering--The great denominations and benevolent societies heartily supporting slavery--Ecclesiastical heavens dark--Deep...

Scriptural view--Church must keep slaveholders out--If they get in, it must expel them--If the Church sanction slavery officially or practically, withdraw from it--Non-slavehold...

LAW OF MOSES AND SLAVERY--Levitical statutes not perfect--Allowed what it would now be wrong to practice--Dr. Stowe quoted--Servitude under the law of Moses essentially differen...

The duty plain and scriptural--Break every yoke--proclaim a year of Jubilee--Slavery cannot be reformed--Slaves prepared for freedom--Free people of color--Fugitives in Canada--...

NEW TESTAMENT AND SLAVERY--SERVANTS mentioned but not SLAVES--DOULOS does not mean SLAVE--New Testament does not regulate slavery because it cannot be regulated--Slaveholders no...

Seven millions of slaves in America--Slavery originated in the African slave trade--Slave-trade unprovoked--Excited by lust for gold--Commenced by the Portuguese in 1434--Spania...

Necessity of government--Obligation of political action--Voters responsible for slavery--United States Constitution does not endorse slavery--Founders of the Republic intended t...

PATRIARCHAL SERVITUDE AND SLAVERY--No patriarch ever owned a slave--Slavery had no existence in the time of the patriarchs--Diodorus, Athen├Žus and Rollin quoted--The Hebrew wor...

Kind slaveholders--Examples--Excusable slaveholders--Slavery a political matter--Fault of the public corruption--Fault of the laws--Slaveholders from necessity--Slaves their pro...

A slave is a chattel--Authorities quoted--Advertised and sold as property--Facts adduced--sale of a boy--a woman with an infant in her arms--a mother--American slave-code identi...