The Sinfulness of Slaveholding

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Excerpt from The Sinfulness of Slaveholding: Shown by Appeals to Reason and Scripture To some of our readers this proposition may seem self-evident, and a set argument unnecessary, for if liberty be right, slavery is wrong. But when we remember that throughout the South, the people do not seem to realize its truth, that very many of the clergy maintain that it is right and sanctioned by the Bible, and that ninety-nine hundredths of the Christian ministry in our land claim that it is at least tolerated by the Bible, that on the floor of that Convention which met in our own State last spring, to devise plans for the abolition of slavery, it was claimed, by many of the most influential minds, that slavery is not sinful in itself, the reader will see that argument is necessary. If these ministers, and other leading minds, do not know better, they need to be convinced. If they do know better, acting as they do, they should be nailed to the wall, and brief arguments should be put into the hands of the people, by which thus to nail them. Again, in all moral reforms, it is essentially necessary that we get hold of that greatest of all levers conscience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.