Letters on American Slavery: Addressed to Mr. Thomas Rankin, Merchant at Middlebrook, Augusta County, VaGarrison & Knapp, 1833 - 118 sider John Rankin was pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Ripley and Strait-Creek, in Brown County, Ohio. His brother Thomas was a Virginia businessman. Reverend Rankin wrote these thirteen letters "with the desire of aiding and encouraging every effort for the liberation of the enslaved and degraded Africans." He rebuts the canard that blacks are an inferior race: "What people, in similar circumstances, have ever given stronger marks of genius than are exhibited by the enslaved African of the United States?" By 1838 the book had gone through at least five editions, all of which are far more common than this first edition. |
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Abraham absolute monarchis admit American slaveholder Apostle argument avarice become benevolence bondage bound Bourbon county brethren Cameron Canaan Canaanites chains children of Israel circumcised color command consequently consider constitution of Kentucky creatures crime cruel cruelty curse DEAR BROTHER deprive DOULOS dreadful Egyp Egypt emancipation endure enslaved equally eternal evident evil feelings Fleming county freedom give gospel hapless heart heathen Hence hold slaves human induce inflicted injustice innocent instances involuntary slavery Israelites Japhet justice Kentucky kind of servitude labor lashes liberation liberty love of gain master ment mildest mind misery nation natural rights nature oppression parents permitted perpetual poor slaves possess principles prohibit proprietors of slaves purchased rest of mankind Sabbath Schools sacred says scene servants slaveholding soul steal sufferings suppose system of slavery tender thou thousand tion toil torturing unjust vants whip wife WILLIAM DICKEY word yoke
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Side 92 - Let as many servants as are under the yoke, count their own masters worthy of all honor ; that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brethren ; but rather do them service because they arc faithful and beloved partakers of the benefit.
Side 108 - Is not this the fast that I have chosen ? To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke.
Side 96 - as are under the yoke, count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them.
Side 84 - Both thy bond-men, and thy bond-maids, which thou shall have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bond-men and bond-maids. Moreover of the children of strangers that do sojourn among you
Side 95 - Behold, the hire of the laborers, who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cricth, and the cries of them which have reaped,
Side 84 - of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession: and ye shall take them as an inheritance —for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession ; and they shall be your bondmen forever;* but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigor.
Side 107 - Thou shall not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee. He shall dwell with
Side 107 - a man, and scllcth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall SURELY BE PUT TO DEATH.