The author, a bishop for the Episcopal Church during the 19th century, sets forth arguments for his belief that the Bible sanctions the practice of slavery.

Excerpt from A Scriptural, Ecclesiastical, and Historical View of Slavery: From the Days of the Patriarch Abraham, to the Nineteenth Century The word slave occurs but twice in our English Bible, but the term servant, commonly employed by our trans lators, has the meaning of 'slave in the Hebrew and the Greek originals, as a general rule, where it stands alone. We read, however, in many places, of hired servants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.