Index:The Bible Against Slavery (Weld, 1838).djvu

Title	The Bible Against Slavery
Author	Theodore Dwight Weld
Year	1838
Publisher	American Anti-Slavery Society
Location	New York
Source	djvu
Progress	Done—All pages of the work proper are validated
Transclusion	Fully transcluded
Validated in	December 2012

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CONTENTS.

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		page.
Definition of Slavery		5—9
⁠Negative,		6
⁠Affirmative,		8
⁠Legal,		9
The Moral Law against Slavery		9—11
⁠"Thou shalt not steal,"		10
⁠"Thou shalt not covet,"		11
Man-stealing—Examination of Ex. xxi. 16,		12—17
⁠Separation of man from brutes and things,		15
Import of "Buy" and "Bought with Money,"		17—22
⁠Servants sold themselves,		21
Rights and privileges secured by Law to Servants,		23—25
Servants were voluntary,		25—31
⁠Runaway servants not to be delivered to their Masters,		26
Servants were paid wages,		32—36
Masters not "Owners,"		37—46
⁠Servants not subjected to the uses of property,		37
⁠Servants expressly distinguished from property,		38
⁠Examination of Gen. xii. 5.—"The souls that they had gotten," &c.		39
⁠Social equality of Servants and Masters,		40
⁠Condition of the Gibeonites as subjects of the Hebrew Commonwealth,		41
⁠Egyptian Bondage analyzed,		42
OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED.
"Cursed be Canaan," &c.—Examination of Gen. ix. 25,		46—48
"For he is his Money," &c.—Examination of Ex. xxi. 20,21,		48—52
Examination of Lev. xxv. 44-46,		52—57
⁠"Both thy "Bondmen, &c., shall be of the heathen,"		53
⁠"They shall be your bondmen forever,"		54
⁠"Ye shall take them as an inheritance," &c.		55
Examination of Lev. xxv. 39, 40.—The freeholder not to "serve as a Bond Servant,"		57—65
⁠Difference between Hired and Bought Servants,		58
⁠Bought Servants the most favored and honored class,		58
⁠Israelites and Strangers belonged to both classes,		60
⁠Israelites, servants to the Strangers,		61
⁠Reasons for the release of the Israelitish Servants in the seventh year,		61
⁠Reasons for assigning the Strangers to a longer service,		61
⁠Reasons for calling them the Servants,		62
⁠Different kinds of service assigned to the Israelites and Strangers,		62
Review of all the classes of Servants with the modifications of each,		66—68
⁠Political disabilities of the Strangers,		67
Examination of Ex. xxi. 2—6.—"If thou buy an Hebrew servant," &c.		68
The Canaanites not sentenced to unconditional extermination,		69—74