In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there,… — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please… — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage,… — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the… — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery. — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to… — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand… — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to… — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
