[9] Id. 489.
[10] A Literary History of America, 494, 495.
[11] Major Joseph B. Cumming, speaking to the toast, “New Ideas, New Departures, New South,” at fourteenth annual dinner of New England Society of Charleston, S. C., December 22, 1893.
[12] See Cobb, Slavery, xcvii, xcviii, for relevant citations. Chaps. V. and VI. of the Historical Sketch, the former entitled “Slavery in Greece,” and the latter, “Slavery among the Romans” (pp. lix-xcviii), are very readable, learned, and adequate treatments of their respective subjects.
[13] Cobb, Slavery, cxii.
[14] Id.
[15] Aristotle maintained the justice of wars undertaken to procure slaves. See Cobb, Slavery, xii, foot-note 3, for references.
[16] “Pliny compares them to the drones among the bees, to be forced to labor, even as the drones are compelled.” Id. xcviii.
[17] In his chapter entitled “Slavery among the Jews” Mr. Cobb cites most of the important passages. Id. xxxviii sq.
[18] Twenty Years in Congress, vol. i. I.