| Garry Wills - 2007 - 646 páginas
...instance, what would become some abolitionists' favorite line from the Jewish Scripture, Exodus 21.16: "He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." This has to do with the kidnapping of a free man, not with... | |
| Jeremy Neely - 2007 - 327 páginas
...found sanction for their punishment of slave catchers in Old Testament scripture, quoting Exodus 21:16: "He that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." The killings of proslavery men represented an aggressive turn... | |
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