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... pretends to take these things from third persons who are themselves left free , as the common thief does , and it is certain they are taken from the slaves without their leave . It is therefore larceny or stealing in fact , originating ...
... pretends to take these things from third persons who are themselves left free , as the common thief does , and it is certain they are taken from the slaves without their leave . It is therefore larceny or stealing in fact , originating ...
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... pretended indefi- niteness and obscurity with which the crime of " man - stealing , " & c . , is described in the Scriptures . But as I have already remarked , the scriptural descriptions are all more comprehensive than most human ...
... pretended indefi- niteness and obscurity with which the crime of " man - stealing , " & c . , is described in the Scriptures . But as I have already remarked , the scriptural descriptions are all more comprehensive than most human ...
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... pretend it was the black color , the negroes retort that it was the white color , a controversy with which I feel no disposition to interfere . CHAPTER V. CASE OF CANAAN . * GREAT numbers of pro - slavery people contend that the negroes ...
... pretend it was the black color , the negroes retort that it was the white color , a controversy with which I feel no disposition to interfere . CHAPTER V. CASE OF CANAAN . * GREAT numbers of pro - slavery people contend that the negroes ...
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... pretend he did , he did so by his own free choice and request ; while if his family were slaves also , he must have been excessively foolish to have become so for the sake of living with them , when the master might lawfully sell and ...
... pretend he did , he did so by his own free choice and request ; while if his family were slaves also , he must have been excessively foolish to have become so for the sake of living with them , when the master might lawfully sell and ...
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... pretend that such a code as this was intended to sanction such a practice as human slavery . Preparatory to a critical examination of the celebrated statute contained PRO - SLAVERY PERVERSIONS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT . 45.
... pretend that such a code as this was intended to sanction such a practice as human slavery . Preparatory to a critical examination of the celebrated statute contained PRO - SLAVERY PERVERSIONS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT . 45.
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absurd abuse American slaveholders apostles bought brethren Canaan CHAPTER children of Israel Christ Christian church condemned connived crime custom customarily described destroy Deut divine doctrine Egypt enslaved Epistle to Philemon fact false free and voluntary heathen Hebrew language Hebrew servitudes human governments human slavery intended Ishmaelites Israel Israelites Jews Jubilee justified latter Law of Nature Levitical law Lord man-stealing masters Matt modern moral duty moral law murder nation never Old Testament Onesimus oppression passages Pentateuch persecution persons Pharaoh political posterity practice of human preaching precepts pretend PRO-SLAVERY PERVERSIONS property or slaves prove punishment quoted reason regulate religion rendered respect sanction Scrip Scriptures sell sins slaveholders slavish sold sons of Noah spirit thee thou shalt tion translation unto verse violation voluntary service whole wicked words buy xvii xviii xxiii xxiv xxvii xxxiv
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Page 5 - And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 1 - But be not ye called Rabbi : for one is your Master, even Christ ; and all ye are brethren.
Page 3 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 5 - Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry ; and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword ; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Page 1 - And they sat down to eat bread. And they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Page 1 - For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
Page 5 - At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.