Excerpt from The Quarterly Anti-Slavery Magazine, Vol. 2: January, 1837 We can hardly believe that Mr. J ahn and the Jesuits who preceded him, adopted these five ways of turning human beings into property, as the result of prayerful and success ful study of the Word of God; for it seems they had just enough of Bible knowledge to spend their hours of devo tion in counting beads and worshipping the Virgin Mary! The truth is, they are just so many props invented originally for the special purpose of supporting the African slave trade and handed down to us as holy institutions given to the church at Mount Sinai. And we are indebted for them to the same kind of men who used to sell quills out of the wings of the angel Gabriel. As proof, we need only men tion the fact that no exposition ever gave such a View of the law of Moses, prior to the commencement of the slave trade. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.