Theodore Weld criticizes use of Canaan lore to justify slavery.

Date
Apr 1837
Type
Periodical
Source
Theodore D. Weld
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Theodore D. Weld, "Is slavery from above or beneath?" The Quarterly Anti-Slavery Magazine 1, (April 1837): 296

Scribe/Publisher
The Quarterly Anti-Slavery Magazine
People
Theodore D. Weld
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

many a slaveholder has found "cursed be Canaan" a poor drug to stupify a throbbing conscience—a mocking lullaby, vainly wooing slumber to unquiet tossings, that like the troubled sea, can find no rest, and screaming "peace, be still," where God makes war, and breaks his thunders.

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