By human law, under the Christian Dispensation, in the nineteenth century we are commanded to do, what God more than three thousand years ago, under the Mosaic Dispensation, positively commanded the Jews not to do.
She critiques the contradiction between human laws and divine commandments regarding the treatment of slaves.
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Who labored assiduously to keep the sufferings of the slave continually before the British public?
The hopes of the world depend, under God, upon the success of your cause.
The more the subject of slavery is agitated, the better.
So far from thinking slavery a sin, or that I had no right to own the slaves inherited from my father, I thought no one could venture to dispute that right, any more than he could my right to his land or his stock.