There is a most important difference between the state laws, or judicial statutes of the Hebrew nation, and the moral law as expressed in t...

Before leaving the subject of Jewish servitude, there are three considerations of chief importance on which we wish you may fix your candid...

What is an inhabitant, but one who dwells, or resides in the place mentioned? “All inhabiting it” is the exact form of expression in the or...

That the term forever, when used to denote the continuance of their bondage is not to be taken in its absolute sense, is evident from the v...

Servants of this sort were expected to remain for life, or at least unto the year of general release, and their children were considered in...

Your next main argument is substantially this: — The Jewish nation held slaves, whose condition and treatment were regulated by laws given ...

f you should still believe that the patriarchs did hold their fellow men as slaves, in the ordinary sense of the term, which we allow to be...

The terms evedh, in the Old Testament, and doulos in the New, clearly synonymous, and we believe, invariably translated servant or bondman,...

We admit the truth of your first remark, that “the subject involved is delicate, and daily becomes more so from the morbid sensibilities wh...

Belfast, Maine, Aug. 20, 1839. To THE PREsBYTERY of TombEcBee, IN THE STATE of Mississippi. Christian Brethren, Your lette...

The Presbytery of Tombechee being in session, at Starksville Mississippi, April 9th, 1839. A communication was received from Rev. Asa Cummi...