A Selected Bibliography of Antebellum Arguments on the Bible and Slavery

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MORAL OBJECTIVIST ARGUMENTS

Dew, Thomas R., Review of Debates in the Virginia Legislature (1832) Calhoun, John , Sp

eech in the United States Senate (1837)

PRO-SLAVERY BIBLICAL ARGUMENTS

Smylie, James Letter to the Presbytery (1836)

Capers, Gabriel, Bondage, a Moral Institution Sanctioned by Scriptures (1836)

Freeman, George Rights and Duties of Slaveholders (1836)

McCaine, Alexander Slavery Defended Against the Attacks of the Abolitionists (1842)

Fuller, Richard Domestic Slavery Considered as a Scriptural Institution:Correspondence with Henry Wayland (1845)

Stuart, Moses Conscience and the Constitution, with Remarks on the Recent Speech of the Honorable Daniel Webster (1850)

Thornwell, James Henley,The Rights and Duties of Masters (1850)

Stringfellow, Thornton, Scriptural and Statistical Views in Favor of Slavery (1856)

Ross, Frederick A Slavery Ordained of God (1857)

ANTI-SLAVERY BIBLICAL ARGUMENTS

Smith, Gerrit, Gerrit Smith to James Smylie (1837)

Weld, Theodore Dwight The Bible Against Slavery (1837)

Wayland, Henry Domestic Slavery Considered as a Scriptural

Institution: Correspondence with Richard Fuller (1845)

Barnes, Albert Inquiries into the Scriptural Views of Slavery (1846)

M.E.F, “Does the Bible Sustain Slavery?” Christian Review 27 (October 1862)

Smith, Goldwin Does the Bible Sanction Slavery? (1863)