tribes of the Jews, and governed the prophets, as well as the people? Is it likely, under circumstances of this description, that Isaiah would say to the subjects of his charge, let the Canaanite slaves go free; take every burden from their backs, and break every yoke from their necks, and that will be the fast which will please the Lord? Can the reader fail to feel the force of this first reason?
2d. The absolute silence of the New Testament, in not condemning the practice of enslaving the negro race; and, further, its absolute recognition of the practice, and that favorably agreeing both with the curse of Noah and the law of Moses on this subject. The favorable recognitions of the New Testament on this matter, are found in the writings of St. Paul, who understood the whole subject as well as any other writer of the Scriptures, and, doubtless, much better. The places in St. Paul's writings, which recognize negro slavery, are, Titus ii, 9; Ephesians vi, 6, 8; Colossians iv, 1, and iii, 22; also Philemon, as well as other passages of the New Testament, all of which, says Dr. Clarke, refer to absolute slaves, in the property sense of the word.
That the slaves of Rome were Africans, is proved from the fact, that when prisoners were brought from Africa, they were always sold for slaves. At one time only, by one of their generals, namely, Regulus, there were brought to Rome twenty thousand African negroes, who were all sold into the bondage of slavery. — Rollin, Vol. I, p. 283. If so many were captured at one time, by but one man, how many may we not suppose were thus taken and sold during all
