{ CHRISTIANITY AND SLAVERY; IN A COURSE OF LECTURES PREACHED AT CATHEDRA THE CATHEDRAL AND PARISH CHURCH OF ST. MICHAEL, BARBADOS. BY EDWARD ELIOT, B. D. ARCI DEACON OF BARBADOS, AND LATE FELLOW AND TUTOR OF EXETER COLLEGE, OXFORD “ As we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the Gospel, even 1 Tuess. ii. 4. LONDON: AND PARKER, OXFORD. 1833. 59. THE RESIDENT AND NON-RESIDENT HOLDERS OF SLAVE PROPERTY IN THE WEST INDIES, THE FOLLOWING LECTURES WITH THE EARNEST PRAYER THAT TIE DUTIES RECOMMENDED IN THEM, MAY BE FAITHFULLY AND FEARLESSLY PERFORMED BY THEMSELVES, AND BY THEIR SUBORDINATE AGENTS, ARE RESPECT FULLY INSCRIBED, BY THEIR OBEDIENT SERVANT, THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. The following Lectures (with the exception of the last) were preached at the Cathedral in Barbados, before large congregations of the white inhabitants. My object was to impress on the community the necessity of attending to the moral and religious welfare of their slave population. The subjects are not Most of them have, within the last few years, been at times prominently insisted upon in the pulpit (though not in a connected and consecutive form) by myself or by my brethren in the ministry. The lectures are now published with a view new. |