All slave-keepers that keep the innocent in bondage, apostates pretending to lay claim to the pure & holy Christian religion, of what congregation so ever, but especially in their ministers, by whose example the filthy leprosy and apostacy is spread far and near it is a notorious sin which many of the true Friends of Christ and his pure truth, called Quakers, has been for many years and still are concern'd to write and bear testimony against as a practice so gross & hurtful to religion, and destructive to government beyond what words can set forth, or can be declared of by men or angels, and yet lived in by ministers and magistrates in America / written for a general service.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lay, Benjamin, 1677-1759.

Series:

Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive: Part I: Debates over slavery and abolition.

Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive: Part I: Debates over slavery and abolition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--United States--Controversial literature--1737.

Slavery.

Slavery and the church--Friends, Society of.

Slavery and the church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p. )

Notes:

Sabin no. 39465.

Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress. Reproduced courtesy of World Microfilms Publications.

OCLC:

85889789