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Title:  The just limitation of slavery: in the laws of God, compared with the unbounded claims of the African traders and British American slaveholders. By Granville Sharp. With a copious appendix: ...
Author: Sharp, Granville, 1735-1813.
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acceptance, if he does not most heartily repent of having enslaved his brethren, and of having encouraged others to the same uncharitable practices, by misinterpreting the holy Scriptures.Under the Gospel Dispensation, all man∣kind are to be esteemed our brethren. Christ commanded his disciples to go and teach (or make disciples of) all nations, "." Matth. xxviii. 19. So that men of all nations (who, indeed, were brethren before, by natural descent from one common father) are now, undoubt∣edly, capable of being doubly related to us, by a farther tie of of brotherhood, which the law of Moses seemed to deny them, and of which the peculiar people of God (jealous of their own adoption) once thought them incapable; I mean, the inestimable privilege of becoming sons, al∣so, to one almighty Father, by adoption, as well as the Jews, and, consequently, of 0