Slavery and the Constitution

by William I. Bowditch

SLAVERY

AND

THE CONSTITUTION.

BY WILLIAM I. BOWDITCH.

BOSTON:
ROBERT F. WALLCUT, 21, CORNHILL.
1849.

BOSTON:
PRINTED BY JOHN WILSON,
No. 21, School-street.

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CONTENTS.

Chapter		Page
I.	"Slavery Agreeable to God's Providence"	[1]
II.	Direct Mental Instruction of Slaves	[5]
III.	Moral and Religious Condition of the Slaves	[14]
IV.	Moral and Religious Teachers of the Slaves	[19]
V.	Direct Religious Instruction of Slaves	[27]
VI.	Indirect Instruction.—No Legal Marriage of Slaves	[56]
VII.	"Soul-driving"	[68]
VIII.	"Domestic Slave-trade"	[77]
IX.	Runaway Slaves	[94]
X.	Slaveholding always Wrong	[107]
XI.	The Constitution and its Interpretation	[117]
XII.	The Constitution according to the Common Meaning of its Terms	[120]
XIII.	The Constitution as its Framers Intended to Make it	[127]
XIV.	The Constitution According to the Practice of the Government	[136]
XV.	The Constitution according to the Exposition of its final Interpreter	[143]
XVI.	No Union with Slaveholders	[150]

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