Tao Te Ching
All Slave-Keepers That keep the Innocent in Bondage, Apostates
By Benjamin Lay
One of the earliest, most powerful and influential American polemics against slavery; this manuscript and its author, were vehemently resisted at first but they overcame the inertia and unconsiousness of the time and started the momentum going in a different direction.
Themes
Quotes from All Slave-Keepers That keep the Innocent in Bondage, Apostates
“Fear not what they can do to you; greater is he that is in you than he that is in the World”
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“slavery - a Practice so gross & hurtful to Religion, and destructive to government, beyond what Words can set forth”
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“There can be no greater Hypocrisy than for us as a People, to refuse to bear Arms and yet purchase Slaves at a very great Price, thereby justifying their selling of them, and the War, by which they were or are obtained;”
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