A Defence of Virginia / And Through Her, of the South, in Recent and Pending Contests Against the Sectional Party
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The original book by Reverend Robert Lewis Dabney; A Defence of the South. Well formatted, 12 point Georgia font.
Chapters (342)
- A DEFENCE OF VIRGINIA,
- CONTENTS.
- PREFACE.
- CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.
- CHAPTER II. THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE.
- CHAPTER III. LEGAL STATUS OF SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES.
- CHAPTER IV. HISTORY OF EMANCIPATION.
- CHAPTER V. THE OLD TESTAMENT ARGUMENT.
- § 2. The Curse upon Canaan.
- § 3. Abraham a Slaveholder.
- § 4. Hagar remanded to Slavery by God.
- § 5. Slavery in the Laws of Moses.
- § 6. Slavery in the Decalogue.
- § 7. Objections to the Old Testament Argument.
- CHAPTER VI. THE NEW TESTAMENT ARGUMENT.
- § 1. Definition of Δουλος.
- § 2. Slavery often mentioned; yet not condemned.
- § 3. Christ applauds a Slaveholder.
- § 4. The Apostles separate Slavery and its Abuses.
- § 5. Slavery no Essential Religious Evil.
- § 6. Slaveholders fully Admitted to Church-membership.
- § 7. Relative Duties of Masters and Slaves recognized.
- § 8. Philemon and Onesimus.
- § 8. St. Paul reprobates Abolitionists.
- § 9. The Golden Rule Compatible with Slavery.
- § 10. Was Christ Afraid to Condemn Slavery?
- CHAPTER VII. THE ETHICAL ARGUMENT.
- § 2. Misrepresentations Cleared.
- § 3. The Rights of Man and Slavery.
- § 4. Abolitionism is Jacobinism.
- § 5. Labour of another may be Property.
- § 6. The Slave Received due Wages.
- § 7. Effects of Slavery on Moral Character.
- § 8. Slavery and the African Slave Trade.
- § 9. The Morality of Slavery Vindicated by its Results.
- CHAPTER VIII. ECONOMICAL EFFECTS OF SLAVERY.
- § 1. Slavery and Republican Government.
- § 2. Slavery and Malthusianism.
- § 3. Comparative productiveness of Slave Labour.
- § 4. Effects of Slavery in the South, compared with those of Free Labour in the North.
- § 5. Effects of Slavery on Population, Disease, and Crime.
- CHAPTER IX. CONCLUSION.
- Footnotes:
- TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
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