Address to Christians of All Denominations: On the Inconsistency of Admitting Slave-Holders to Communion and Church Membership (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1332437419 ISBN 13: 9781332437412

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Excerpt from Address to Christians of All Denominations: On the Inconsistency of Admitting Slave-Holders to Communion and Church Membership

There is, perhaps, no word in the English language which has been used more indefinitely, or applied more variously, than that of slavery. It has been applied to civil disabilities, and to mental degradation. The repub lican considels all those who are the subjects of despotic governments, in a state of slavery. The Christian mo 1alist applies the same appellation to the controlling 1n tluence of the passions, to the subjects of pernicious habits and sinful propensities, while the historian adopts the same term to designate the kind of servitude that existed among the nations of antiquity, which differed as widely from the slavery to which our attention is'now directed, as the civil condition of the people of the United States does from that of the subjects of the Russian empire.

To define it accurately, or to give an adequate idea of the precise condition implied by the word in the present essay, will not be so easy as might be supposed. Yet, some attempt to portray, in its genuine colours, and dis tinctive features, the state of negro slavery in this coun try, seems necessary to a right estimate 'of the merits of the question to be discussed.

Negro slavery, as existing in the United States and British West Indies, appears to be a creature sui generis, unknown to the ancients; and, though drawn from the least cultivated quarter of the globe, unknown even there, except in a passing state.t It is a system that finds no counterpart in the annals of the most barbarous nations on earth. In many of its features it is more arbitiary, more oppressive, more cruel and degrading, than the ser vitude found among the ancients. Slavery m the United States and the West Indies, is the same in its general features and character; and the observations that apply to the one, will be, in most cases, equally applicable to the other.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1332437419
• ISBN 13: 9781332437412
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 27