Nothing can be “due” from slave to master, unless it be that “resistance to tyrants” which is “obedience to God.” It is absurd to say that “labor or service,” in any sense, whether of justice or of law, can be “due” from the slave.
Sumner asserts that a slave cannot owe anything to their master except for the natural right to resist tyranny.
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