TABLE OF CONTENTS.
STUDY I.
STUDY I.
STUDY I.
LessonI.—Wayland’s definition of moral law, page7to8; sin the antecedent of slavery,9; the abuse of slavery a sin,10.
LessonII.—Wayland on the elements of consciousness,10to11; the degeneracy of races, and slavery as the scriptural means of reclamation,12; object of punishment,13.
LessonIII.—Wayland on conscience as a distinct faculty,14,15; Channing, Barnes, and abolitionists generally on the same,16,17,18.
LessonIV.—Wayland on conscience as an independent faculty derived from Shaftesbury, Hutchinson, and Reid,18; combated by Archbishop Seeker,19; argument that conscience is neither a distinct faculty nor infallible,20to23.
LessonV.—Wayland’s doctrine, that slavery sacrifices the slave’s eternal happiness to the master’s temporal, refuted,23to25; the master’s interest and the slave’s moral improvement identical,26,27.
LessonVI.—Wayland’s argument, that slavery is at variance with the laws of God, examined, 27; its connection with productive labour and national wealth considered,28to32; Sismondi’s theory of labour and capital,32; Wayland on slavery as impoverishing soil refuted,33,34.
LessonVII.—Wayland’s doctrine, that the moral principles of the Bible are opposed to slavery, refuted,34,35; Secker’s authority,36; Wayland on slavery as a prohibition of gospel privileges and matrimony controverted,37to40; Luther and Melancthon quoted,39; African practice in regard to matrimony,40; interest of masters to promote permanent marriages among their slaves,40to42.
LessonVIII.—Wayland, Paley, Channing, and Barnes on the opinion that the sacred writers abstained from condemning slavery on motives of policy,43to47.
LessonIX.—Wayland’s doubts, caused by Prof. Taylor,47to50; Wayland’s assertion, that the inculcation of the duties of slaves is no sanction of slavery, combated,51,52.
LessonX.—Wayland’s assertion, that Scripture is opposed to slavery, contrasted with the declarations of the Bible,53; slavery a desirable and ardently sought condition under certain circumstances—historical proofs,54to57.
LessonXI.—Dr. Paley on slavery and the laws of nature,57to61.
LessonXII.—Paley on cruelty as an argument against slavery,62; Lander’s testimony respecting native cruelty in Africa,63; Paley’s slander on Jesus Christ and Paul and Peter repelled,65to67.
LessonXIII.—Slavery in ancient Britain,67; Dr. Samuel Johnson’s argument against negro slavery analyzed, and overthrown by arguments drawn from the laws of nations and the laws of God,68to82.
STUDY II.
STUDY II.
STUDY II.
LessonI.—Relation of guardian and ward a Divine institution,83to85.
LessonII.—Slavery a Divine institution, and the reason why,85to88.
LessonIII.—Slavery the school of adversity to reclaim wicked nations and individuals—Scripture proofs,89to91.
LessonIV.—Albert Barnes on the slavery of the Israelites in Egypt refuted,92to96; his attempt by human reason to determine the will of God,97to99.
LessonV.—Barnes’s examination of the Scripture argument on slavery, and the scriptural account of slavery in the days of Abraham, contrasted,99to109.
LessonVI.—The smiles of God on the institution of slavery proved from the argument of Barnes against it,110; ratio of slaves to whites, and the relative increase in the United States,111,112.
LessonVII.—The interest of the master and the direct laws of God against the abuses of slavery coincident,113,114; Barnes’s cure for slavery,115.
LessonVIII.—Barnes’s denial that Christ ever came in contact with slavery compared with scriptural assertions,116to119.
LessonIX.—The admission of Barnes in regard to slaves escaping to the Hebrew country,119; his assertion, that the Hebrews were not a nation of slaveholders, overthrown by Scripture testimony,120,121.
LessonX.—Distribution by the Hebrews of captives taken in battle,122,123; Greek custom in regard to captives made in war,124; proof-texts from the Bible,125.
LessonXI.—The claim of Barnes to identity with the African race,126; his views on Paul’s injunction to sympathize with those in bonds controverted,127,128.
LessonXII.—Legend of Antioch, Margarita, and the Roman Præfect Olybius,128to133; song of the slaves,131,132; letter of Olybius to the Emperor Probus, manufactured from the language of Mr. Barnes,133to135.
Lesson#XIII.—Barnes’s admissions of the existence of Hebrew and Roman slavery,136, 137.
LessonXIV.—The denial of Barnes that slavery cannot be defended by Bible arguments, 138; its influence on agriculture, commerce, arts, and the African slave himself considered,idem; Sedgjo, the African slave in Louisiana,139,140; the Periplus of Hanno,140,141; the testimony of the Landers on the depravity of native Africans, 142 to144; the Landers made slaves,145; various historical authorities on African and Moorish slavery,145to155.
LessonXV.—Authorities to prove African degradation continued,155to158; slavery subservient to the religious conversion of African slaves,159,160.
LessonXVI.—Paul’s exhortations to slaves considered,161,162; God’s sentence of four hundred years of slavery upon the Hebrews,163.
LessonXVII.—The assertion of Barnes, that a slave bought with money had compensation commanded to be paid him by Scripture, controverted,163,164; Barnes’s declaration of the cunning of the Apostles in not condemning slavery,165,166.
LessonXVIII.—Argument that the injunctions of the Bible upon God’s ancient people are in force and equally binding upon Christians now, (Christians are the heirs of Abraham,) 160 to169.
LessonXIX.—Authorities quoted by Barnes,169; numerous quotations from Barnes on slavery,170to174.
LessonXX.—Wayland’s assertion, that, if the New Testament authorized slavery, it would be the greatest of curses, adopted by Barnes,174to176.
STUDY III.
STUDY III.
STUDY III.
LessonI.—Works of Rev. Dr. Channing—his opinion that the worst errors may arise from religious tendencies,177,178.
LessonII.—Channing’s seven arguments, that a man cannot be held as property, examined, 178,179; his doctrine of conscience and indestructible rights,180to182.
LessonIII.—Examination of Channing’s seven arguments continued,183to188.
LessonIV.—That slavery, disease, and death are necessary effects of sin proved by the chapter of curses, (Deut. xxviii.,) 188 to193; Channing’s standard of feeling or sense of duty controverted,194,195.
LessonV.—Channing’s theory of man’s rights and his consciousness examined,195,196; argument that slavery is the best condition for the African race,197to200; criticism on Channing’s use of the words nature, conscience, law of nature, &c.,200to204.
LessonVI.—Channing’s position, that the debasement of African slavery arises from the enslavement of the race in America, controverted,204to206; its influence on the master race,206,207.
LessonVII.—Channing’s views of slavery, as conducive to licentiousness and unrestrained cohabitation between masters and female slaves, examined,207to211; his views of the quality and brotherhood of the races,212to214.
LessonVIII.—Channing on the relative productiveness of free and slave labour,215; his opinion that the admission of slave territory was just cause for the dissolution of the Union,217,218; his deference to the opinion of Europe,218; labour and capital, the political influence of slavery,219to221.
LessonIX.—Channing’s views of the scriptural argument in favour of slavery overthrown, by a parallel between slavery and polygamy,222to230.
LessonX.—Channing adopting and endorsing Paley’s slander on the integrity of Paul,230to232.
LessonXI.—Channing’s plan of emancipation and inflammatory counsels to the free States,232to235.
LessonXII.—The zeal of abolitionism not according to knowledge,235,236; Channing’s opinion that the negro is one of the best races of the human family,237; Channing on West India emancipation and Southern character,237to239.
LessonXIII.—Sympathy for those suffering punishment from God, for sin, considered,239to241; the deterioration of sin the inevitable cause of slavery,241to243.
LessonXIV.—God’s government of the universe, and his declaration of the right of man’s property in man,243to246; God’s blessing on the slave-owners,247,248.
LessonXV.—Ham’s intermarriage with the race of Cain the cause of his doom and that of his seed to perpetual servitude,248to250; God never entails a curse without sufficient cause,250,251; the mark on Cain,252to255.
STUDY IV.
STUDY IV.
STUDY IV.
LessonI.—Extracts from Bower,256; the Treuga Dei,257,258; Bishop England quoted on the action and records of the Church,259,260.
LessonII.—Establishment of Christianity by law, by Constantine, and the rise of Mohammedanism, 261,262; the schism of the Greek Church,263,264.
LessonIII.—Nature swarming with life, and life merging in distress and death,264,265; sin the cause of slavery, and the latter as a protection,266,267; slavery in China,269.
LessonIV.—Liberty of less value than life,270; the Divine grant to hold slaves,271.
LessonV.—Early church acts and documents approving and providing for slavery,272; the canons and the constitutions of the apostles,272to274; constitution of Antoninus Pius respecting cruelty to slaves,275; canons of the Council of Nice and the first appearance of abolitionism in the world,276,277; St. Basil’s canonical writings,278.
LessonVI.—The invasion of Attila and the Pontiff Leo’s successful intercession,279, 280; Nero’s African slaves, and the white slaves of the Roman Empire,281.
LessonVII.—Church rescripts for the freedom of slaves, and St. Augustin’s mode of manumission in Africa,282,283; Pope Leo’s letters, forbidding slaves to enter the priesthood, and protecting the rights of masters,284,285; barbarian cruelty to slaves ameliorated by Christianity,286,287; canons of the Council of Agdle on slavery,288; modes of becoming slaves,289,290.
LessonVIII.—Muratori on the manumission of slaves in Rome,291; colonial and conditional slaves,292; arming of slaves in defence of Rome and the glutting of the slave-markets of the world,293; canons of the Fourth Council of Orleans,294,295; ditto Fifth Council of Orleans,296to299.
LessonIX.—Bishop England’s account of slavery in England and Ireland in remote ages,299,300; Pope Pelagius and the canons of the Third Councils of Paris and Braga,301,302; articles of the Third Council of Toledo,302,303.
LessonX.—The venerable Bede’s account of the slave-trade of England, A.D. 577,304to306; Pope Gregory’s purchase of British youth,306,307; Gregory’s pastoral admonitions and epistles,308to311.
LessonXI.—Constantine’s edict that none but Christians could hold slaves,212,213; Gregory’s letter to the Præfect of Sicily,313to315; canons of the Fourth Councils of Orleans and Macon,315,316; Gregory to the Bishop of Luna, and the laws of the empire on slavery,317,318.
LessonXII.—Gregory to the Bishop of Naples,319,320; the same to the Bishop of Catania, 321.
LessonXIII.—Justinian’s law to protect debtors against slavery,323; Gregory’s letters about a Syrian deeply in debt,322; his letter of emancipation to Montana and Thomas,324,325; Justinian’s law of marriage between slaves and persons on different estates,327,328; Gregory’s letter on the same subject,329; his letter to the Bishop of Syracuse on the same,330,331.
LessonXIV.—Gregory’s deed of gift conveying the slave boy Acorimus to Theodore the counsellor,331,332; his letter about a slave to the Proctor Bonitus,333: his document to reclaim runaway slaves,333,334; his various letters concerning slaves and the purchase of Barbary slaves,334to336.
LessonXV.—Canons of the Councils of Toledo and Saragossa,336to339; laws of Ina, king of the West Saxons, and the judgments of Withred,340to343.
LessonXVI.—The canons of Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury, King Pepin, Council of Bavaria, Pope Adrian and Charlemagne,343to349; canon of the Council of Frankfort, 349,350.
LessonXVII.—Laws of Charlemagne on slavery,350to353; canons of the Council of Aix-la-Chapelle,353; capitulary of the Emperor Lotharius,353to355.
LessonXVIII.—Unconnected facts bearing on ancient slavery; prostitutes made slaves; Sclavonian bondage; persecution of the Knights Templars,355to360.
LessonXIX.—Derivation of the wordwar; Divine authority for wars,361to365; the church claiming the right to declare offensive war under two circumstances,365; bull of Pope Gregory XI. against the Florentines,366,367; Papal bulls against the Venitians and Henry VIII. of England,367to369; the American colonies at New Haven decreeing the Indian tribes to slavery,369,370.
LessonXX.—Ancient piracy and pirates,370,371; rise of the Vandals, Goths, Huns, and Tartars,372; the Northmen,373to379.
LessonXXI.—Condition of slavery in Europe,379to381.
LessonXXII.—Origin of the Sclavonians,381; the descent of the Arabs and Moors, 383,384.
LessonXXIII.—Africans generally slaves in their native country,384; African slavery to the Shemitic races foretold by prophecy,385,386; sketch of the life, doctrines, and conquests of Mohammed and his successors,386to390.
LessonXXIV.—Slavery introduced into the world as a mercy in favour of life,390; duty and interest combine to incite the master to promote religion and good morals in the slave,391; slavery commanded by reason and the laws of nature,392.