A Condensed Anti-slavery Bible Argument"A bitterly persecuted" anti-slavery minister who emigrated from England to Virginia as a young man, Bourne "was one of the first in the United States to advocate immediate emancipation". He was present at the creation of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and opposed women's participation in that organization. This hard-hitting analysis exposes southerners' "pro-slavery perversions" of the Old and New Testaments and their profound misunderstanding of biblical labor relationships. Though authorship is generally attributed to Bourne, the author's Introduction says he "was born on the banks of Virginia's beautiful river Potomac ..." Bourne was born in Westbury, England. -- David Lesser, Antiquarian book dealer. |
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... exist where these regulations were faithfully observed , it being only where they were disregarded and violated that such oppression was ever com- plained of among the Jews , see Neh . v . 1-13 ; Jer . xxxiv . 8 , 22 , & c . Multitudes ...
... exist where these regulations were faithfully observed , it being only where they were disregarded and violated that such oppression was ever com- plained of among the Jews , see Neh . v . 1-13 ; Jer . xxxiv . 8 , 22 , & c . Multitudes ...
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... exists in our slaveholding states , for nothing could more ' vex ' or ' oppress ' a stranger than such bondage . By these statutes , to defraud a stranger of a single day's wages is set down as a grievous crime , but how much more ...
... exists in our slaveholding states , for nothing could more ' vex ' or ' oppress ' a stranger than such bondage . By these statutes , to defraud a stranger of a single day's wages is set down as a grievous crime , but how much more ...
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... exist in the ancient Hebrew nation at all . Had God authorized slavery by that law , he would certainly have enacted a slave code to support it , as indispensable means for that support , and the fact that he did not is sufficient ...
... exist in the ancient Hebrew nation at all . Had God authorized slavery by that law , he would certainly have enacted a slave code to support it , as indispensable means for that support , and the fact that he did not is sufficient ...
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... exist in the Hebrew nation , but from their own voluntary contracts for service ( if indeed they could contract beyond those periods ) , which might otherwise be most oppress- ively extended beyond them . These institutions being thus ...
... exist in the Hebrew nation , but from their own voluntary contracts for service ( if indeed they could contract beyond those periods ) , which might otherwise be most oppress- ively extended beyond them . These institutions being thus ...
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George Bourne. remained in force , it was impossible for slavery to exist . By the operation of the Jubilee more was done to prevent the oppression of the poor , than by all the human laws for that purpose ever enacted in the world . Any ...
George Bourne. remained in force , it was impossible for slavery to exist . By the operation of the Jubilee more was done to prevent the oppression of the poor , than by all the human laws for that purpose ever enacted in the world . Any ...
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Page 15 - 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 24 - And he said, CURSED be Canaan; A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 10 - Then his master shall bring him unto the judges ; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door-post ; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl ; and he shall serve him for ever.
Page 15 - 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 11 - 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 11 - 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 13 - 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 18 - For three transgressions of Israel, And for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; Because they sold the righteous for silver, And the poor for a pair of shoes...
Page 23 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth : and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Page 17 - And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again : and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.