Bible Defence of Slavery (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 edition. Excerpt: ...as it was God who has made the white man to differ from the black, and appointed the destinies, as well as the bounds of our habitations, and permitted, in the latter ages of the earth, the children of Japheth to enslave the people of Ham, as well as he did the descendants of Shem in the first ages, both cases being necessary to the veracity of the Scriptures on that identical subject. What society of men, or combination of individuals, therefore, can turn aside or abolish the steady and determined course of God's will? for we have every where held in this work, that the subjugation of the race to servitude was judicial, and not fortuitous, but was secured in the very formation of their bodies, brains, mental powers, moral character of their passions and color of their skin, as well as by a written decree, and will be judged at the last day according to what they have received, and not according to that which they have not received. But notwithstanding the absolute importance that all the prophecies of Scripture should be fulfilled, one as much as another, yet abolitionists, in their furious zeal for the cause of the negro race, make very light of the curse of Noah, in the particular of the negro's destiny, and of that part of the law of Moses, which relates to the same thing, treating them as of very uncertain application, as well as of very little force at the present time, merely on account of their very great antiquity. To prove that this is true respecting them, as we suppose them to be unanimous in their published opinions on the subject, we shall quote a few remarks from one of their news prints, entitled," The Friend of Man" published at Utica, Jan. 15, 1839, under the head--" The Facts of Slavery as they Are," as...