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- catalog alternative "Scriptural views of slavery".
- catalog contributor b2477657.
- catalog created "[1969]".
- catalog date "1969".
- catalog date "[1969]".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "[1969]".
- catalog description "Bibliographical footnotes.".
- catalog description "I. Reasons why the appeal on the subject of slavery should be made to the Bible -- 1. The Bible is the acknowledged standard of morals in this nation -- 2. The subject of slavery is one on which the Bible has legislated, and there is, therefore, a propriety that we should ascertain its decisions -- 3. The question whether slavery is right or wrong can only be settled by an appeal to the Scriptures -- 4. Great reforms, on moral subjects, do not occur except under the influence of religious principle -- 5. Because it is by such an appeal that the advocates of slavery endeavor to defend the system -- II. What constitutes slavery? -- 1. Not a mere condition of apprenticeship -- 2. Not to be confounded with the condition of a minor -- 3. Not merely a governmental affair -- 4. Not a mere relation in which legislative bodies alone are concerned -- 5. Does not pertain wholly to a legislature to regulate -- 6. Not a condition like that of the serfs of Russia, etc -- 7. Not the kind of property which a man has in his wife or child -- 1. Is wholly involuntary on the part of the slave -- 2. Is property claimed in that which belongs to him, but which he is not at liberty to resume to himself -- 3. Is a right of property in his services without equivalent or compensation -- 5. Involves the right to sell as the master pleases -- The true question stated -- III. Slavery in the time of the Patriarchs -- Meaning of the words denoting servitude in the Scriptures".
- catalog description "IV. Slavery in Egypt -- 1. The resemblance between the servitude of the Hebrews in Egypt and slavery now -- II. Whether the interposition of God, in that case, was such to make it proper for us to derive any conclusions as to his will in regard to slavery -- V. The Mosaic institutions in relation to slavery with those existing in the United States -- VI. Hebrew servitude in the time of the Prophets -- 1. The inquiry in regard to the condition of the native inhabitants of the land of Palestine -- 2. There was no foreign traffic in slaves -- 3. The prophets felt themselves at liberty to animadvert upon the injustice of slavery, etc -- VII. The relation of Christianity to slavery -- 1. There is no evidence that Christ himself ever came in contact with slavery -- 2. The manner in which the apostles treated the subject of slavery -- 1. They found it in existence when they organized churches out of the limits of Judea -- 2. The apostles did not openly denounce slavery as an evil, or require that those who were held in bondage should be at once emancipated -- 3. The question whether the general conduct of the apostles is consistent with the belief that they approved of slavery and desired its perpetuity -- 4. The principles laid down by the Savior and his apostles, are such as are opposed to slavery, and if carried out would secure its universal abolition.".
- catalog extent "384 p.".
- catalog hasFormat "Inquiry into the scriptural views of slavery.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Inquiry into the scriptural views of slavery.".
- catalog issued "1969".
- catalog issued "[1969]".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, Negro Universities Press".
- catalog relation "Inquiry into the scriptural views of slavery.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "261.8/3".
- catalog subject "E449 .B262 1969".
- catalog subject "E449 .B262 1969b".
- catalog subject "Slavery United States.".
- catalog subject "Slavery in the Bible.".
- catalog tableOfContents "I. Reasons why the appeal on the subject of slavery should be made to the Bible -- 1. The Bible is the acknowledged standard of morals in this nation -- 2. The subject of slavery is one on which the Bible has legislated, and there is, therefore, a propriety that we should ascertain its decisions -- 3. The question whether slavery is right or wrong can only be settled by an appeal to the Scriptures -- 4. Great reforms, on moral subjects, do not occur except under the influence of religious principle -- 5. Because it is by such an appeal that the advocates of slavery endeavor to defend the system -- II. What constitutes slavery? -- 1. Not a mere condition of apprenticeship -- 2. Not to be confounded with the condition of a minor -- 3. Not merely a governmental affair -- 4. Not a mere relation in which legislative bodies alone are concerned -- 5. Does not pertain wholly to a legislature to regulate -- 6. Not a condition like that of the serfs of Russia, etc -- 7. Not the kind of property which a man has in his wife or child -- 1. Is wholly involuntary on the part of the slave -- 2. Is property claimed in that which belongs to him, but which he is not at liberty to resume to himself -- 3. Is a right of property in his services without equivalent or compensation -- 5. Involves the right to sell as the master pleases -- The true question stated -- III. Slavery in the time of the Patriarchs -- Meaning of the words denoting servitude in the Scriptures".
- catalog tableOfContents "IV. Slavery in Egypt -- 1. The resemblance between the servitude of the Hebrews in Egypt and slavery now -- II. Whether the interposition of God, in that case, was such to make it proper for us to derive any conclusions as to his will in regard to slavery -- V. The Mosaic institutions in relation to slavery with those existing in the United States -- VI. Hebrew servitude in the time of the Prophets -- 1. The inquiry in regard to the condition of the native inhabitants of the land of Palestine -- 2. There was no foreign traffic in slaves -- 3. The prophets felt themselves at liberty to animadvert upon the injustice of slavery, etc -- VII. The relation of Christianity to slavery -- 1. There is no evidence that Christ himself ever came in contact with slavery -- 2. The manner in which the apostles treated the subject of slavery -- 1. They found it in existence when they organized churches out of the limits of Judea -- 2. The apostles did not openly denounce slavery as an evil, or require that those who were held in bondage should be at once emancipated -- 3. The question whether the general conduct of the apostles is consistent with the belief that they approved of slavery and desired its perpetuity -- 4. The principles laid down by the Savior and his apostles, are such as are opposed to slavery, and if carried out would secure its universal abolition.".
- catalog title "An inquiry into the scriptural views of slavery.".
- catalog title "Scriptural views of slavery".
- catalog type "text".