The Pro Slavery Argument As Maintained By the Most Distinguished Writers of the
The Pro Slavery Argument As Maintained By the Most Distinguished Writers of the
Belle Ragnar Parsons
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There ai'e other parts of Scripture, where the practice of buying and selling slaves seems to be justified. The Hebrew laws permitted the sell- ing of even the Jews into slavery for six years. " If thou 27* 318 PROFESSOR DEW ON SLAVERY. buy a Hebrew servant, six years lie sball serve, and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. " And if the ser- vant chose, at the expiration of six years, to remain with his master as a slave, he might do so on having his ear bored through with an awl. ...It seems fathers could sell their chil- dren thus : " And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid servant, she shall not go out as the men servants do. "* An unlimited right to purchase slaves from among foreigners seems to have been granted, whether they had been slaves or not before the purchase ; thus, in the twenty-fifth chapter of Leviticus, we find the following injunction : " Both thy bond- men and bondmaids which thou shalt have, shall be of the- heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
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