ABSTRACT
Crouching among the sugar-canes, they secretly searched throughout the Bible for arguments against slavery, and so dangerous to the minds of their masters, were the arguments which those poor negroes drew from the Scriptures, that the masters found it convenient to forbid the reading of the Bible to their slaves. The emancipation granted to another in the matter of hereditary disabilities was signal. In a moment he struck off chains which had been riveted by the traditions of centuries, and raised her from the position, accepted even by herself, of a “Gentile dog” to one higher than the highest of the commonwealth of Israel. Search throughout the Gospel history, and observe his conduct in regard to women, and it will be found that the word liberation expresses, the act which changed the whole life and character and position of the women dealt with, and which ought to have changed the character of men’s treatment of women from that time forward.
