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

Title The Bible Against Slavery Author Theodore Dwight Weld Year 1838 Publisher American Anti-Slavery Society Address New York Source djvu Progress Done—All pages of the work proper are validated Pages   (key to Page Status) - -  i  ii  iii  iv 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 - - - -

CONTENTS. 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