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If then He did not condemn Jewish servitude this does not prove that he would not have condemned such a monstrous system as that of American slavery, if that had existed among them.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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Grimké argues that Jesus's silence on slavery does not imply approval of American slavery, which is a more extreme form.
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Consequences, my friends, belong no more to you, than they did to these apostles.
Those who view with horror the traffic in slaves by ministers of the gospel, express more freely their pain at its indulgence, than I have ever known.
The operation of the laws tends to deprive slaves of religious instruction and consolation.
Surely you believe that his aim is not shortened that he cannot save.