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1 Charles Elliott, Sinfulness of American Slavery (B. F. Tefft, ed.) 1 (1850)

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                 SINFULNESS


                           OF



     AMERICAN SLAVERY:


                       PROVED FROM


ITS EVIL SOURCES; ITS INJUSTICE; ITS WRONGS; ITS CONTRARIETY
     TO MANY SCRIPTURAL COMMANDS, PROHIBITIONS, AND
         PRINCIPLES, AND TO THE CHRISTIAN SPIRIT;
               AND FROM ITS EVIL EFFECTS;

TOGETHER WITH OBSERVATIONS ON EMANCIPATION, AND THE
         DUTIES OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN REGARD
                      TO SLAVERY.

                           BY

       REV. CHARLES ELLIOTT, D. D.

                        EDITED BY

                REV. B. F. TEFFT, . D.

  Thou shalt not steal.-b-EIGHTH COMMkNDMENT.
  He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall
surely be put to death.-Exonus xxI, 16.
  The law is made . . for men-stealers.--1 TIMhOTHY a, 9, 10.
  Hominum fures, qui vel servos vel liberos abducunt, rotinent, vendunt, vel emunt.
[Those are men-stealers who abduct, keep, sell, or buy slaves or freemen.)-PooL's
SYNOPSIS ON 1 TimOTHY I, 9, 10.
  'Every American who loves his country, should dedicate his whole life, and
every faculty of his soul, to efface the foul stain [of slavery] from its character.-
EDINBURG REVIEW, No. LXI, p. 146.

               IN  TWO     VOLUMES.

                      VOLUME I.























       NEGRO UNIVERSITIES PRESS

                    NEW YORK

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