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... servitude , and the attitude of Christianity toward slavery , in the teachings of Christ and his apostles , or in the Apostolic age . The his- torical inquiry , starting from the age of the New Testa- ment , will , for convenience ...
... servitude , and the attitude of Christianity toward slavery , in the teachings of Christ and his apostles , or in the Apostolic age . The his- torical inquiry , starting from the age of the New Testa- ment , will , for convenience ...
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... servitude had ceased to be an institution of Hebrew society . There was then no such thing as a system of slavery in Judea . Here and there , a Roman officer appears to have had a few house or body slaves . Herod , the Idumean , had ...
... servitude had ceased to be an institution of Hebrew society . There was then no such thing as a system of slavery in Judea . Here and there , a Roman officer appears to have had a few house or body slaves . Herod , the Idumean , had ...
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... SERVITUDE AMONG THE HEBREWS . IN discussing the nature of Hebrew servitude , it is unnecessary to go back of the time of Moses . Abraham , like the Arab sheikh of to - day , had around him a body , not of chattel slaves , but of ...
... SERVITUDE AMONG THE HEBREWS . IN discussing the nature of Hebrew servitude , it is unnecessary to go back of the time of Moses . Abraham , like the Arab sheikh of to - day , had around him a body , not of chattel slaves , but of ...
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... servitude , whether a penalty for debt or a misfortune of war , had nothing in common with the chattelism of more recent times . Under the Mosaic code , the relation of master and serv- ant was so hedged round by laws in the interest of ...
... servitude , whether a penalty for debt or a misfortune of war , had nothing in common with the chattelism of more recent times . Under the Mosaic code , the relation of master and serv- ant was so hedged round by laws in the interest of ...
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... servitude , we must keep in mind the system of property and of labor among the Jews , and also their penal code . The agrarian dis- tribution of land after the conquest of Palestine made every Jewish householder a landowner as well ...
... servitude , we must keep in mind the system of property and of labor among the Jews , and also their penal code . The agrarian dis- tribution of land after the conquest of Palestine made every Jewish householder a landowner as well ...
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Page 66 - And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Page 64 - That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free...
Page 64 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united states...
Page 65 - St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans. Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, except the fortyeight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess...
Page 65 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...
Page 11 - Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 65 - ... order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit : Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St.
Page 30 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best : thou shalt not oppress him.
Page 47 - MASTERS, give unto your servants that which is just and equal ; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Page 34 - Therefore thus saith the Lord: Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.