[Footnote B:  If the Canaanites were devoted by God to unconditional extermination, to have employed them in the erection of the temple,—­what was it but the climax of impiety?  As well might they pollute its altars with swine’s flesh, or make their sons pass through the fire to Moloch.]

[Footnote C:  Suppose all the Canaanitish nations had abandoned their territory at the tidings of Israel’s approach, did God’s command require the Israelites to chase them to the ends of the earth and hunt them out, until every Canaanite was destroyed?  It is too preposterous for belief and yet it follows legitimately from that construction, which interprets the terms “consume,” “destroy,” “destroy utterly,” &c. to mean unconditional, individual extermination.]

[The original design of the preceding Inquiry embraced a much wider range of topics.  It was soon found, however, that to fill up the outline would be to make a volume.  Much of the foregoing has therefore been thrown into a mere series of indices, to trains of thought and classes of proof which, however limited or imperfect, may perhaps, afford some facilities to those who have little leisure for protracted investigation.]

THE

ANTI-SLAVERY EXAMINER NO 4.

THE

BIBLE AGAINST SLAVERY.

AN INQUIRY INTO THE

PATRIARCHAL AND MOSAIC SYSTEMS

ON THE SUBJECT OF

HUMAN RIGHTS.

Fourth Edition—­Enlarged.

NEW YORK: 

PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY,

NO. 143 NASSAU STREET.

1838.

This No. contains 7 sheets:—­Postage, under 100 miles, 10 1/2 cents; over 100 miles, 14 cents.

Please read and Circulate.

CONTENTS.

    DEFINITION OF SLAVERY,

        NEGATIVE,

        AFFIRMATIVE,

        LEGAL,

    THE MORAL LAW AGAINST SLAVERY

        “THOU SHALT NOT STEAL,”

        “THOU SHALT NOT COVET,”

    MAN-STEALING—­EXAMINATION OF EX. xxi. 16,

        SEPARATION OF MAN FROM BRUTES AND THINGS,

    IMPORT OF “BUY” AND “BOUGHT WITH MONEY,”

        SERVANTS SOLD THEMSELVES,

    RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES SECURED BY LAW TO SERVANTS,

    SERVANTS WERE VOLUNTARY,

        RUNAWAY SERVANTS NOT TO BE DELIVERED TO THEIR MASTERS,

    SERVANTS WERE PAID WAGES,

    MASTERS NOT “OWNERS,”

        SERVANTS NOT SUBJECTED TO THE USES OF PROPERTY,

        SERVANTS EXPRESSLY DISTINGUISHED FROM PROPERTY,