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Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible

by Isaac Allen

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1860
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Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible is an antislavery tract by Isaac Allen (1817-1903), an American Congregationalist clergyman who entered the long mid-nineteenth-century pamphlet debate over the biblical defence of American chattel slavery. The book engages with the arguments that proslavery writers drew from the Old Testament Hebrew slave codes and from the New Testament passages on slavery, and argues that the biblical material does not sanction the system of race-based hereditary chattel slavery practised in the American South. Allen's tract belongs to the body of Northern Protestant antislavery writing that ran alongside the political abolitionist movement in the years before the Civil War. The piece is a primary source for nineteenth-century American religious debate over slavery.

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Isaac Allen

Isaac Allen wrote a compact nineteenth-century theological tract that entered a major American moral and political debate through close reading of scripture. Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible appeared as number 45 in the American Tract Society series, with bibliographic records dating the Boston edition to about 1860.

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First published
1860
Reading time
About 45 minutes
Pages
35
Language
English
Genre
History
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