 | Owen Lovejoy, William Ann Moore - 2004 - 432 páginas
...title is in himself. To take it from him is robbery. But we have a specific statute on this subject. "He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hands," that is, in his possession, "he shall surely be put to death."12 This enactment takes this... | |
 | Kevin Wayne Johnson - 2005 - 200 páginas
...life will be cut off. "And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if...found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death " (Exodus 21: 15-1 7).... | |
 | Elsie T. Choice - 2005 - 300 páginas
...America, there is a specific law which forbade this practice, and that is written in Exodus 21:16. "And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if...found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." The punishment for this evil certainly did not happen, and slavery in America continued for hundreds... | |
 | Joseph Sturge - 2005 - 328 páginas
...such a time, should light up on its threshold a blazing beacon to flash terror on slave-holders. ' He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely he put to death.' Ex, xxi, 16, Deut. xxiv. 7. God's cherubim and flaming sword guarding the entrance... | |
 | Walter Curtis Lichfield - 2005 - 700 páginas
...father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. 21:16 "And he that stealeth a man, and seileth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. 21:17 "And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death, 21:18 "And if men... | |
 | Mark A. Noll - 2006 - 199 páginas
...16 that in his view should have convinced all believers to oppose the slave trade and slavery itself ("And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or...found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death"). But the burden of Bourne's argument was carried by grand reasoning from first principles: "Every man... | |
 | Milton Meltzer - 2006 - 261 páginas
...American citizen who holds a human being in bondage is a manstealer. Did we not learn it long ago? 'And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if...found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.' "I look at the Book of Discipline that every Methodist house contains, and find in it that no Methodist... | |
 | David Brion Davis - 2006 - 464 páginas
...penalty of death for "man-stealing," it was not inflicted on these Massachusetts sailors. (Exodus 21:16: "And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if...found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." Of course, the Bible also positively sanctions slavery, and the passage on man-stealing clearly applied... | |
 | Allen Dwight Callahan - 2008 - 295 páginas
...his square spectacles. A cataracted left eye blinked. He smiled, turned the page back and repeated. "He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he...found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. ..." "That's the Scripture," Gabriel said. "That's the good Book what Mingo's reading out of." The... | |
 | Catharine S. Brown - 2006 - 238 páginas
...duelist." That he is a SLAVEHOLDER, is notorious. And the Bible decides that "He that stealeth a MAN, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to DEATH." Are men "found in his (Mr. Clay's) hand?" "All men are created equal, and entitled to life, LIBERTY... | |
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