STUDY II.

LESSON I.-Relation of guardian and ward a Divine institution, 83 to 85.

LESSON II.-Slavery a Divine institution, and the reason why, 85 to 88.

LESSON III.-Slavery the school of adversity to reclaim wicked nations and individuals---

Scripture proofs, 89 to 91.

LESSON IV.-Albert Barnes on the slavery of the Israelites in Egypt refuted, 92 to 96;

his attempt by human reason to determine the will of God, 97 to 99.

LESSON V.-Barnes's examination of the Scripture argument on slavery, and the scriptural

account of slavery in the days of Abraham, contrasted, 99 to 109.

LESSON VI.-The smiles of God on the institution of slavery proved from the argument

of Barnes against it, 110; ratio of slaves to whites, and the relative increase in the

United States, 111, 112.

LESSON VII.-The interest of the master and the direct laws of God against the abuses

of slavery coincident, 113, 114; Barnes's cure for slavery, 115.

LESSON VIII.-Barnes's denial that Christ ever came in contact with slavery compared

with scriptural assertions, 116 to 119.

LESSON IX.—The admission of Barnes in regard to slaves escaping to the Hebrew coun-

try, 119; his assertion, that the Hebrews were not a nation of slaveholders, overthrown

by Scripture testimony, 120, 121.

LESSON X.-Distribution by the Hebrews of captives taken in battle, 122, 123;

Greek cus-

tom in regard to captives made in war, 124; proof-texts from the Bible, 125.

LESSON XI.-The claim of Barnes to identity with the African race, 126; his views on

Paul's injunction to sympathize with those in bonds controverted, 127, 128.

LESSON XII.-Legend of Antioch, Margarita, and the Roman Præfect Olybius, 128 to 133;

song of the slaves, 131, 132; letter of Olybius to the Emperor Probus, manufactured

from the language of Mr. Barnes, 133 to 135.

LESSON XIII.-Barnes's admissions of the existence of Hebrew and Roman slavery, 136,

137.

LESSON XIV. The denial of Barnes that slavery cannot be defended by Bible arguments,

138; its influence on agriculture, commerce, arts, and the African slave himself con-

sidered, idem; Sedgjo, the African slave in Louisiana, 139, 140; the Periplus of

Hanno, 140, 141; the testimony of the Landers on the depravity of native Africans,

142 to 144; the Landers made slaves, 145; various historical authorities on African

and Moorish slavery, 145 to 155.

LESSON XV.-Authorities to prove African degradation continued, 155 to 158; slavery

subservient to the religious conversion of African slaves, 159, 160.

LESSON XVI.-Paul's exhortations to slaves considered, 161, 162; God's sentence of four

hundred years of slavery upon the Hebrews, 163.

LESSON XVII.-The assertion of Barnes, that a slave bought with money had compensa-

tion commanded to be paid him by Scripture, controverted, 163, 164; Barnes's declara-

tion of the cunning of the Apostles in not condemning slavery, 165, 166.

LESSON XVIII.-Argument that the injunctions of the Bible upon God's ancient people

are in force and equally binding upon Christians now, (Christians are the heirs of

Abraham,) 166 to 169.

LESSON XIX.-Authorities quoted by Barnes, 169; numerous quotations from Barnes on

slavery, 170 to 174.

LESSON XX.-Wayland's assertion, that, if the New Testament authorized slavery, it would

be the greatest of curses, adopted by Barnes, 174 to 176.

STUDY III.

LESSON I.-Works of Rev. Dr. Channing—his opinion that the worst errors may arise from

religious tendencies, 177, 178.

LESSON II.-Channing's seven arguments, that a man cannot be held as property, exa-

mined, 178, 179; his doctrine of conscience and indestructible rights, 180 to 182.

LESSON III.-Examination of Channing's seven arguments continued, 183 to 188.

LESSON IV.—That slavery, disease, and death are necessary effects of sin proved by the

chapter of curses, (Deut. xxviii.,) 188 to 193; Channing's standard of feeling or sense

of duty controverted, 194, 195.

LESSON V.-Channing's theory of man's rights and his consciousness examined, 195, 196;

argument that slavery is the best condition for the African race, 197 to 200; criticism

on Channing's use of the words nature, conscience, law of nature, &c., 200 to 204.

LESSON VI.-Channing's position, that the debasement of African slavery arises from the

enslavement of the race in America, controverted, 204 to 206; its influence on the

master race, 206, 207.

LESSON VII.-Channing's views of slavery, as conducive to licentiousness and unrestrained

cohabitation between masters and female slaves, examined, 207 to 211; his views of

the quality and brotherhood of the races, 212 to 214.

LESSON VIII.—Channing on the relative productiveness of free and slave labour, 215 ;

his opinion that the admission of slave territory was just cause for the dissolution of

the Union, 217, 218; his deference to the opinion of Europe, 218; labour and capital,

the political influence of slavery, 219 to 221.

LESSON IX.-Channing's views of the scriptural argument in favour of slavery over-

thrown, by a parallel between slavery and polygamy, 222 to 230.

LESSON X.-Channing adopting and endorsing Paley's slander on the integrity of Paul,

230 to 232.

LESSON XI.-Channing's plan of emancipation and inflammatory counsels to the free

States, 232 to 235.

LESSON XII.-The zeal of volitionism not according to knowledge, 235, 236; Channing's

opinion that the negro is one of the best races of the human family, 237; Channing

on West India emancipation and Southern character, 237 to 239.

LESSON XIII.-Sympathy for those suffering punishment from God, for sin, considered,

239 to 241; the deterioration of sin the inevitable cause of slavery, 241 to 243.

LESSON XIV.-God's government of the universe, and his declaration of the right of

man's property in man, 243 to 246; God's blessing on the slave-owners, 247, 248.

LESSON XV.—Ham's intermarriage with the race of Cain the cause of his doom and that

of his seed to perpetual servitude, 248 to 250; God never entails a curse without suf-

ficient cause, 250, 251; the mark on Cain, 252 to 255.

STUDY IV.

LESSON I.-Extracts from Bower, 256; the Treuga Dei, 257, 258; Bishop England quoted

on the action and records of the Church, 259, 260.

LESSON II.-Establishment of Christianity by law, by Constantine, and the rise of Moham-

medanism, 261, 262; the schism of the Greek Church, 263, 264.

LESSON III.-Nature swarming with life, and life merging in distress and death, 264, 265;

sin the cause of slavery, and the latter as a protection, 266, 267; slavery in China, 269.

LESSON IV.-Liberty of less value than life, 270; the Divine grant to hold slaves, 271.

LESSON V.-Early church acts and documents approving and providing for slavery, 272;

the canons and the constitutions of the apostles, 272 to 274; constitution of Antoninus

Pius respecting cruelty to slaves, 275; canons of the Council of Nice and the first

appearance of abolitionism in the world, 276, 277; St. Basil's canonical writings, 278.

LESSON VI.-The invasion of Attila and the Pontiff Leo's successful intercession, 279,

280; Nero's African slaves, and the white slaves of the Roman Empire, 281.

LESSON VII.—Church rescripts for the freedom of slaves, and St. Augustin's mode of

manumission in Africa, 282, 283; Pope Leo's letters, forbidding slaves to enter the

priesthood, and protecting the rights of masters, 284, 285; barbarian cruelty to slaves

ameliorated by Christianity, 286, 287; canons of the Council of Agdle on slavery, 288;

modes of becoming slaves, 289, 290.

LESSON VIII.-Muratori on the manumission of slaves in Rome, 291; colonial and con-

ditional slaves, 292; arming of slaves in defence of Rome and the glutting of the

slave-markets of the world, 293; canons of the Fourth Council of Orleans, 294, 295;

ditto Fifth Council of Orleans, 296 to 299.

LESSON IX.-Bishop England's account of slavery in England and Ireland in remote

ages, 299, 300; Pope Pelagius and the canons of the Third Councils of Paris and

Braga, 301, 302; articles of the Third Council of Toledo, 302, 303.

LESSON X.-The venerable Bede's account of the slave-trade of England, A. D. 577, 304

to 306; Pope Gregory's purchase of British youth, 306, 307; Gregory's pastoral ad-

monitions and epistles, 308 to 311.

LESSON XI.-Constantine's edict that none but Christians could hold slaves, 212, 213;

Gregory's letter to the Præfect of Sicily, 313 to 315; canons of the Fourth Councils

of Orleans and Macon, 315, 316; Gregory to the Bishop of Luna, and the laws of the

empire on slavery, 317, 318.

LESSON XII.-Gregory to the Bishop of Naples, 319, 320; the same to the Bishop of Ca-

tania, 321.

LESSON XIII.-Justinian's law to protect debtors against slavery, 323; Gregory's letters

about a Syrian deeply in debt, 322; his letter of emancipation to Montana and

Thomas, 324, 325; Justinian's law of marriage between slaves and persons on differ-

ent estates, 327, 328; Gregory's letter on the same subject, 329; his letter to the

Bishop of Syracuse on the same, 330, 331.

LESSON XIV.-Gregory's deed of gift conveying the slave boy Acorimus to Theodore the

counsellor, 331, 332; his letter about a slave to the Proctor Bonitus, 333: his docu-

ment to reclaim runaway slaves, 333, 334; his various letters concerning slaves and

the purchase of Barbary slaves, 334 to 336.

LESSON XV.-Canons of the Councils of Toledo and Saragossa, 336 to 339; laws of Ina,

king of the West Saxons, and the judgments of Withred, 340 to 343.

LESSON XVI. The canons of Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury, King Pepin, Council

of Bavaria, Pope Adrian and Charlemagne, 343 to 349; canon of the Council of Frank-

fort, 349, 350.

LESSON XVII.-Laws of Charlemagne on slavery, 350 to 353; canons of the Council of

Aix-la-Chapelle, 353; capitulary of the Emperor Lotharius, 353 to 355.

LESSON XVIII.-Unconnected facts bearing on ancient slavery; prostitutes made slaves;

Sclavonian bondage; persecution of the Knights Templars, 355 to 360.

LESSON XIX.-Derivation of the word war; Divine authority for wars, 361 to 365; the

church claiming the right to declare offensive war under two circumstances, 365; bull

of Pope Gregory XI. against the Florentines, 366, 367; Papal bulls against the Ve-

nitians and Henry VIII. of England, 367 to 369; the American colonies at New

Haven decreeing the Indian tribes to slavery, 369, 370.

LESSON XX.-Ancient piracy and pirates, 370, 371; rise of the Vandals, Goths, Huns,

and Tartars, 372; the Northmen, 373 to 379.

LESSON XXI.-Condition of slavery in Europe, 379 to 381.

LESSON XXII.—Origin of the Sclavonians, 381; the descent of the Arabs and Moors,
383, 384.

LESSON XXIII.-Africans generally slaves in their native country, 384; African slavery

to the Shemitic races foretold by prophecy, 385, 386; sketch of the life, doctrines, and

conquests of Mohammed and his successors, 386 to 390.

LESSON XXIV.—Slavery introduced into the world as a mercy in favour of life, 390; duty

and interest combine to incite the master to promote religion and good morals in the

slave, 391; slavery commanded by reason and the laws of nature, 392.

STUDY V.

LESSON I.-Faith and observance of facts in the moral world the true modes of learning

God's will, 393.

LESSON II. The works of creation proofs of the Creator, 394 to 398.

LESSON III.—The question of the admission of evil into the economy of God's govern-

ment on earth, and a denial that all men are born equals, 398, 399; the five races of

the human family, and the moral necessity of command in some and subordination

in others, 399 to 402.

LESSON IV.-Intellect correspondent to organization, 403; inquiry into the nature of in-

stinct by various philosophers, 403 to 405; inexorable inequality of human condition

in this world and the next, 406 to 408.

LESSON V.-The moral duty of loving our species defined, 409.

LESSON VI.-Men not equal physically, religiously, mentally, morally, or politically, 410.

LESSON VII.—Justice and the rules of Christianity identical and inseparable, 411, 412.

LESSON VIII.-The golden rule considered in relation to slavery, 413 to 416.

LESSON IX.-The unchangeableness of God, and human misery caused by a general rebel-

lion against his laws, 417 to 420.

LESSON X.-Christianity incompatible with savage life, 420, 421.

LESSON XI.-Gradation in intellect and condition no impediment to Christianity, 421.

LESSON XII.-Christianity and slavery not antagonistic, 422.

LESSON XIII.-Christian humility inculcated, 423.

LESSON XIV. The radiance of Christian hope equalizes all variety of condition, 423, 424;

sketch of the slave's prospect of immortal happiness, 426 to 428.

LESSON XV.-The feebleness of finite conceptions of infinity, 428, 429; hope for the sub-

missive, 430, 431; the requirement of God that the strong should protect the weak, 432.

STUDY VI.

LESSON I.-Nature of sin; the primal transgression, 433, 434.

LESSON II.-The occupation and doom of Cain, 435, 436.

LESSON III.-The mark upon Cain, Mohammedan traditions, 437, 438; proof-texts from

Scripture, 439, 440.

LESSON IV.-The punishment of Cain did not lead him to reformation, 440; Asiatic hy-

perbole in description, 441, 442.

LESSON V.-The cause of Cain's degradation renewed upon Canaan, and his masters

named, 442, 443.

LESSON VI.-Proofs that the descendants of Ham inherited the curse of Cain, and were

black, as also were the Canaanites whom God's chosen people either exterminated

or enslaved, 443 to 447.

LESSON VII.-The negro lineage of Ham established, 447 to 451.

LESSON VIII.-Signification of the name "Naamah" in Hebrew and Arabic, 451 to 455.

LESSON IX.-Variations in different languages of the names of Cain and Naamah, also

of other remarkable words, 456 to 458.

LESSON X.-The names and derivatives of the words Cain and Naamah found only among

the descendants of Ham, 459 to 464.

LESSON XI.-Proofs scriptural and historical that the descendants of Ham were black,

464 to 470.

LESSON XII.-Biblical proofs that the Canaanites were black, 471 to 473.

LESSON XIII.-Scriptural testimony respecting the colour of the races of the human

family, 473 to 477.

LESSON XIV.-Jewish wars against the Ethiopian race; the Philistines black, 478, 479:

the origin of these wars the animosity between the Shemitic and Hamitic races, 480;

difference in the structure of the bones and the hair between the antagonist races,

481; intermarriage with the Hamitic by the Shemitic race a cause of God's anger,

482; the dispersion of the Canaanites by the Jewish conquest of Palestine, 482.

LESSON XV.-Derivation and train of thought connected with the word Ham in the

Shemitic languages, 483 to 487; the Hebrew personal pronoun, 488 to 491; origin of

the word Ethiopian, 493 to 495.

LESSON XVI.-Hebrew, Syriac, Greek, and Coptic derivations of the word Ham, 495 to 502.

the pro-

LESSON XVII.-Exegesis of the thirty-third chapter of Ecclesiasticus, 502 to 503;

vidence of God manifested in placing deteriorated races under the control of races

less debased, 504, 505.