Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867,
By E. J. HALE & SON,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
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] |
PREFACE.
To the conquerors of my native State, and perhaps to some of her sons, a large part of the following defence will appear wholly unseasonable. A discussion of a social order totally overthrown, and never to be restored here, will appear as completely out of date to them as the ribs of Noah's ark, bleaching amidst the eternal snows of Ararat, to his posterity, when engaged in building the Tower of Babel. Let me distinctly premise, that I do not dream of affecting the perverted judgments of the great anti-slavery party which now rules the hour. Of course, a set of people who make success the test of truth, as they avowedly do in this matter, and who have been busily and triumphantly engaged for so many years in perfecting a plain injustice, to which they had deliberately made up their minds, are not within the reach of reasoning. Nothing but the hand of a retributive Providence can avail to reach them. The few among them who do not pass me by with silent neglect, I am well aware will content themselves with scolding; they will not venture a rational reply.