CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| Introductory | [9] |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| The African Slave Trade | [27] |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Legal Status of Slavery in the United States | [61] |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| History of Emancipation | [79] |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| The Old Testament Argument | [94] |
| The Curse upon Canaan | [101] |
| Abraham a Slaveholder | [104] |
| Hagar Remanded to Slavery by God | [110] |
| Slavery in the Laws of Moses | [114] |
| Slavery in the Decalogue | [122] |
| Objections to the Old Testament Argument | [124] |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| The New Testament Argument | [146] |
| Definition of Δουλος | [146] |
| Slavery often mentioned; yet not condemned | [149] |
| Christ Applauds a Slaveholder | [153] |
| The Apostles Separate Slavery and its Abuses | [155] |
| Slavery no Essential Religious Evil | [158] |
| Slaveholders fully Admitted to Church-membership | [161] |
| Relative Duties of Masters and Slaves Recognized | [167] |
| Philemon and Onesimus | [176] |
| St. Paul Reprobates Abolitionists | [185] |
| The Golden Rule Compatible with Slavery | [192] |
| Was Christ Afraid to Condemn Slavery? | [198] |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| The Ethical Argument | [209] |
| Misrepresentations Cleared | [213] |
| The Rights of Man and Slavery | [241] |
| Abolitionism is Jacobinism | [262] |
| Labour of Another may be Property | [271] |
| The Slave Received due Wages | [273] |
| Effects of Slavery on Moral Character | [276] |
| Slavery and the African Slave Trade | [288] |
| The Morality of Slavery Vindicated by its Results | [293] |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| Economical Effects of Slavery | [295] |
| Slavery and Republican Government | [297] |
| Slavery and Malthusianism | [303] |
| Comparative Productiveness of Slave Labour | [317] |
| Effects of Slavery in the South, compared with those of Free Labour in the North | [331] |
| Effects of Slavery on Population, Disease, and Crime | [340] |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| Conclusion | [349] |