CHAPTER IX.

SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.

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 different from American slavery--Meaning of "buy," "heathen," "bondmen," and "forever,"--Servants not stolen--Voluntary--Provision for religious improvement--Kind treatment--Could not be sold--Equal to their masters--Certain emancipation--Salvation of the heathen the primary design of introducing foreign servants page 107