...ninety-first article which bears more immediately upon the question under consideration. It is there declared that— " There shall never be any Bond Slavery, Villinage,...strangers as willingly sell themselves or are sold to us. And these shall have all the liberties and Christian usages which the law of God, established in Israel...

...immediately upon the question under consideration. It is there declared that — " There shall necer be any Bond Slavery, Villinage, or Captivity amongst...strangers as willingly sell themselves, or are sold to us. And these shall have all the liberties and Christian usages which the law of God, established in Israel...

...under consideration. It is there declared that— " There shall never bo any Bond Slavery, Villinngo, or Captivity amongst us, unless it be lawful Captives...strangers as willingly sell themselves, or are sold to us. And these shall have all the liberties and Christian usages which the law of God, established in Israel...

...any bond slavery, villinage or captivity among us, unlexi it be lawful captives taken in just war, and such strangers as willingly sell themselves or are sold to us. And these shall have all the liberties and Christian usages which the law of God, established in Israel,...

...any bond slavery, villimige or captivity among u?, unless it be lawful captives taken in just war, and such strangers as willingly" sell themselves or are sold to us. And these shall have nil the lilicrties and Christian usages which the law of God, established in Israel,...

...different declarations. There is, first, the clause : " There shall never be any bond slavery, villenage, or captivity amongst us, unless it be lawful captives...strangers as willingly sell themselves or are sold to us " ; and although this provision falls short of that universal freedom which is our present aspiration,...

...the whole of this Body of Liberties, it declares, " there shall never be any bond slavery, villenage or captivity amongst us, unless it be lawful captives...strangers as willingly sell themselves or are sold to us," so that from that hour, though slavery and the slave-trade were rife all over Christendom, and forced...

...against spoliation. Slavery was prohibited, except in the case of " lawful captives taken in just war, and such strangers as willingly sell themselves, or are sold to us ; " all such, however, were " to have all the liberties and Christian usages which the law of God established...

...prohibited slavery in general terms, but left a wide latitude for construction in the reservations : ' 'Unless it be lawful captives, taken in just wars,...strangers as willingly sell themselves or are sold unto us, and these shall have all the liberties and Christian usages which the law of God, established...

...confined to " illiterate and profane persons." The laws of Massachusetts, in 1641, justified enslaving " captives taken in just wars, and such strangers as willingly sell themselves or are sold unto us." In 1662, Virginia revised the rule of the common law, and declared that children should follow...