Influence of Christianity On Government And Slavery
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83. Note. ■• Wilson's Ev. Of Ch. Vol. 1. P. 239. habitations of the Athenian, were crowded with his troops of slaves. ****#** iIq resented their slightest crrors"with the most merciless inflictions. He tutored them to duty, ' as wild beasts are tamed, ' with stripes and cruelest severities. He debased their natures by habitual licentiousness ; he endeavored to extinguish in their breasts every spark of generous or manly feeling, by illibe- ral education, by accustoming them to blows, and indign...ities and insults. " " This, " says Potter in his Archelogia, " was the condi- tion of the slaves at Athens, which though deplorable enough, — if compared with that of their fellow sufferers in other cities, seems easy, tolerable, and not to be repined at. They were wholly at the command of their masters, to be employed as they saw convenient in the worst and most wretched drudgeries ; and to be used at their discretion, punished, starved, beaten, tormented, and that inmost places without any appeal to superior power, and punished even with death itself" " The slave was interdicted, " says Mr.
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