Excerpt from Ancient Slavery Disapproved of God: The Substance of a Lecture We must, at once, do honor to their mental greatness. They have just declared that slavery is a Noachic curse; and now they assure us that slavery is an Abrahamic blessing. Be yond a question, they are wonderful men! For, by their presti digitation, they have transmuted a dark and dreadful curse, into a bright and beautiful blessing. We admit that Abraham was involved in the custom of bounden servitude that obtained in his day; that is, in as far as the fact of having bond-servants is concerned. But for any man to argue from this fact, that therefore slavery was ordained of God, is most illogical and evil. Polygamy, also, was a fact in patriarchal history: but was polygamy therefore ordained of' God? The ecclesiastical advocates of slavery would themselves shrink from an avowal that all the farts of patriarchal history were institutions ordained of God, and included in the Abra hamic blessing, promised and insured. And we may justly demand by what authority they have discriminated in favor of slavery, and ascribe it, especially. To the ordination of God. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.