[The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society]@TWC D-Link bookThe Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 CHAPTER III 8/197
The _politics_ of anti-slavery the Antiguans are exceedingly well versed in, but of its _religion_, they seem to feel but little.
They seem never to have examined slavery in its moral relations; never to have perceived its monstrous violations of right and its impious tramplings upon God and man.
The Antigua planters, it would appear, have _yet_ to repent of the sin of slaveholding. If the results of an emancipation so destitute of _principle_, so purely selfish, could produce such general satisfaction, and be followed by such happy results, it warrants us in anticipating still more decided and unmingled blessings in the train of a voluntary, conscientious, and religious abolition. THIRD PROPOSITION .-- The _event_ of emancipation passed PEACEFULLY.
The first of August, 1834, is universally regarded in Antigua, as having presented a most imposing and sublime moral spectacle.
It is almost impossible to be in the company of a missionary, a planter, or an emancipated negro, for ten minutes, without hearing some allusion to that occasion.
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