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CONTENTS.
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| 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. |
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| "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 | |||
