OF

AMERICAN SLAVERY:

PROVED FROM

ITS EVIL SOURCES; ITS INJUSTICE; ITS WRONGS; ITS CONTRARIETY
TO MANY SCRIPTURAL COMMANDS, PROHIBITIONS, AND
PRINCIPLES, AND TO THE CHRISTIAN SPIRIT;

AND FROM ITS EVIL EFFECTS;

TOGETHER WITH OBSERVATIONS ON EMANCIPATION, AND THE
DUTIES OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN REGARD
TO SLAVERY.

BY

REV. CHARLES ELLIOTT, D. D.

EDITED BY

REV. B. F. TEFFT, D. D.

"Thou shalt not steal."-EIGHTH COMMANDMENT.

"He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall
surely be put to death."-EXODUS XXI, 16.

"The law is made. . for men-stealers."-1 TIMOTHY 1, 9, 10.

"Hominum fures, qui vel servos vel liberos abducunt, retinent, vendunt, vel emunt."
[Those are men-stealers who abduct, keep, sell, or buy slaves or freemen.]-POOL'S
SYNOPSIS ON 1 TIMOTHY I, 9, 10.

"Every American who loves his country, should dedicate his whole life, and
every faculty of his soul, to efface the foul stain [of slavery] from its character."-
EDINBURG REVIEW, NO. LXI, P. 146.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOLUME I.

Cincinnati:

PUBLISHED BY L. SWORMSTEDT & J. H. POWER,

FOR THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, AT THE WESTERN BOOK CONCERN,
CORNER OF MAIN AND EIGHTH STREETS.

R. P. THOMPSON, PRINTER.