tacitly, if not emphatically, admitted in the clause just above quoted out of the law of God.
But to make the fact still more clear, namely, that the Jews did actually deal in slaves of the negro race, see the Book of Joel, third chapter, where it is shown that because the Tyrians, Zidonians, and people of Palestine, who were of the same race with those just named, being all Hamites of old Canaan, had abused the Hebrews while captives among them at a certain time, by ridicule, and by selling their little ones at drinking houses for wine, and at houses of ill-fame for the purpose of riot and lewdness, that they should themselves be sold by the Jews in their turn, as a recompense, or as a judgment on their own heads, for having done so great a deed of wickedness.
But, says one, if it was wicked for the people of Tyre and Zidonia to sell the little children of the Jews, why was it not just as wicked for the Jews to sell the Zidonians, and the people of Canaan? To solve this question, you must ask the determining councils and judgments of God, which, on this subject, are all set down in the great record of his doings toward that race of men, namely, the Scriptures, and are his judicial acts concerning them.
The passages in the Book of Joel, above alluded to, read as follows: "For, behold in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehosaphat (or the field of battle), and will plead with them there, for my people and my heritage Israel, whom they [the Tyrians and Zidonians] have scattered
