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This collection of publications from leading members of the pro-slavery movement, provides a valuable insight into the moral and intellectual world from whence it came. The individual works are "Cotton is King: Or, Slavery in the Light of Political Economy" (David Christy), "Liberty and Slavery: Or, Slavery in the Light of Moral and Political Philosophy" (Albert Taylor Bledsoe, LL.D.), "The Bible Argument: Or, Slavery in the Light of Divine Revelation" (Thornton Stringfellow, D. D.), "Slavery in the Light of Social Ethics" (Chancellor Harper), "Slavery in the Light of Political Science" (J. H. Hammond), "Slavery in the Light of Ethnology" (S. A. Cartwright, M. D.), "Slavery in the Light of International Law" (E. N. Elliott, LL.D.), and "The Bible Argument on Slavery" (Charles Hodge, D.D.). The leading article is by Christy, who he is often listed as the author of the entire collection.. Elliott is the editor. The cover features seventh vice-president John Calhoun, who used his sharp intellect in support of slavery.… (more)
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“God decreed slavery.” Canaan’s descendants, heathens, POWs of Israelites.
503: “How can any man, who believes the Bible, admit for a moment that God intended to teach mankind by the Bible, that all men are born free and equal?”
Cartwright, Samuel A. “Slavery in the Light of Ethnology.”
701: “Whereas under that system of ethics taught in the Bible and made a rule of action in the Souther States, the descendants of Canaan are more rapidly increasing in numbers, and having more of the comforts and pleasures of life, and more morality and Christianity among them than any others of the same race or any other portion of the globe. They are daily bought and sold, and inherited as property, as the Scriptures said they should be.”
"Beasts of the field" and serpent of Eden were blacks.
Hodge, Charles. “The Bible Argument on Slavery.”
“Slaveholding is not necessarily sinful,” nor a crime. “…slavery is a question of circumstance, and not a malum in se.” Abolition is “an error fraught with evil consequences,” contrary to Scripture.