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... . MORAL EFFECTS OF SLAVERY - Slavery injurious both to the master and slave ยท SECTION V. 17-20 SOURCES OF SLAVERY - Crime - War - Debt - Treachery- Parentage 20 , 21 SECTION VI . HISTORY OF SLAVERY - Early introduction of a 3.
... . MORAL EFFECTS OF SLAVERY - Slavery injurious both to the master and slave ยท SECTION V. 17-20 SOURCES OF SLAVERY - Crime - War - Debt - Treachery- Parentage 20 , 21 SECTION VI . HISTORY OF SLAVERY - Early introduction of a 3.
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... crime - sale - birth . Employment of slaves - Power of masters - Slaves reckoned as chattels - Slaves de- serted in their old age - Rome enslaved - Crusades SECTION VIII . 38-47 SLAVERY AMONG THE JEWS - Slavery denounced as a pun ...
... crime - sale - birth . Employment of slaves - Power of masters - Slaves reckoned as chattels - Slaves de- serted in their old age - Rome enslaved - Crusades SECTION VIII . 38-47 SLAVERY AMONG THE JEWS - Slavery denounced as a pun ...
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... crime , while the poor child is pro- perly taken care of . So , though an infant is en- tirely subject to its parents , it is not subject to their will . The laws of God and man protect it ; and , if the will of the parents is to do ill ...
... crime , while the poor child is pro- perly taken care of . So , though an infant is en- tirely subject to its parents , it is not subject to their will . The laws of God and man protect it ; and , if the will of the parents is to do ill ...
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... crimes , be separated from society , confined in a prison , kept to hard labour , and fed upon bread and water ; but , in all this , he is subject not to the will of another individual , but to the laws of his country . In the first ...
... crimes , be separated from society , confined in a prison , kept to hard labour , and fed upon bread and water ; but , in all this , he is subject not to the will of another individual , but to the laws of his country . In the first ...
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... Crime . - On account of their crimes , some persons have been condemned to labour in a state of slavery for a limited time , or for the remainder of life . 2. Captives taken in war have been either de- tained and employed as slaves in ...
... Crime . - On account of their crimes , some persons have been condemned to labour in a state of slavery for a limited time , or for the remainder of life . 2. Captives taken in war have been either de- tained and employed as slaves in ...
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