Ben Zartman
Puritan Board Junior
Recently, while a guest at a conference in the Deep South, I was astonished to find this book still in print and for sale at a bookstall on the premises.
Figuring that if anyone could shed light on the issue of slavery from the pro perspective intelligently it would be Dabney, I purchased it.
Having just got though it, my question is: does anyone have access to a refutation of Dabney's moral justification for slavery? He goes to great lengths to show from Scripture that it was approved and regulated in both the old and new Testaments, and therefore is morally acceptable even unto this day.
As for the rest of the book, his railing political invective is an eye-opener: after all, this was a well-respected Presbyterian minister! I learned some new words, and not nice ones...
Saddest of all is his assertion that though the "African Race" was originally of one blood with all others, it had somehow degenerated and become a different genus, incapable of morals or equal intellectual standing with the rest of the races. But that rubbish doesn't concern his argument from scripture about the morality of forced servitude.
Figuring that if anyone could shed light on the issue of slavery from the pro perspective intelligently it would be Dabney, I purchased it.
Having just got though it, my question is: does anyone have access to a refutation of Dabney's moral justification for slavery? He goes to great lengths to show from Scripture that it was approved and regulated in both the old and new Testaments, and therefore is morally acceptable even unto this day.
As for the rest of the book, his railing political invective is an eye-opener: after all, this was a well-respected Presbyterian minister! I learned some new words, and not nice ones...
Saddest of all is his assertion that though the "African Race" was originally of one blood with all others, it had somehow degenerated and become a different genus, incapable of morals or equal intellectual standing with the rest of the races. But that rubbish doesn't concern his argument from scripture about the morality of forced servitude.