d or imperfect, may perhaps, afford some facilities to
those who have little leisure for minute and protracted investigation.]

No. 4.

THE

ANTI-SLAVERY EXAMINER.

THE

BIBLE AGAINST SLAVERY.

AN INQUIRY INTO THE

PATRIARCHAL AND MOSAIC SYSTEMS

ON THE SUBJECT OF

HUMAN RIGHTS.

Third Edition--Revised.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY, NO. 143 NASSAU STREET.

1838.

This periodical contains 5 sheets.--Postage under 100 miles, 7 1-2 cts;
over 100 miles, 12 1-2 cts.

_Please read and circulate._

CONTENTS

DEFINITION OF SLAVERY,

Negative,

Affirmative,

Legal,

THE MORAL LAW AGAINST SLAVERY

"Thou shalt not steal,"

"Thou shalt not covet,"

MAN-STEALING--EXAMINATION OF EX. xxi. 16,

Separation of man from brutes and things,

IMPORT OF "BUY" AND "BOUGHT WITH MONEY,"

Servants sold themselves,

RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES SECURED BY LAW TO SERVANTS,

SERVANTS WERE VOLUNTARY,

Runaway Servants not to be delivered to their Masters,

SERVANTS WERE PAID WAGES,

MASTERS NOT "OWNERS,"

Servants not subjected to the uses of property,

Servants expressly distinguished from property,

Examination of Gen. xii. 5.--"The souls that they had
gotten," &c.

Social equality of Servants and Masters,

Condition of the Gibeonites as subjects of the Hebrew
Commonwealth,

Egyptian Bondage analyzed,

OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED.

"CURSED BE CANAAN," &c.--EXAMINATION OF GEN. ix. 25,

"FOR HE IS HIS MONEY," &c.--EXAMINATION OF EX. xxi. 20, 21,

EXAMINATION OF LEV. xxv. 44-46,

"Both thy BONDMEN, &c., shall be of the heathen,"

"They shall be your bondmen FOREVER,"

"Ye shall take them as an INHERITANCE," &c.

EXAMINATION OF LEV. XXV. 39, 40.--THE FREEHOLDER NOT TO "SERVE
AS A BOND SERVANT,"

Difference between Hired and Bought Servants,

Bought Servants the most favored and honored class,

Israelites and Strangers belonged to both classes,

Israelites servants to the Strangers,

Reasons for the release of the Israelitish Servants in
the seventh year,

Reasons for assigning the Strangers to a longer service,

Reasons for