My brother says slavery is the sum of all villanies.
"'But did not the Most High God place his people in slavery for seventy years, in Babylon?
This does not prove that slavery is a good thing, in itself; for by the same proof heathenism might be shown to be a blessing.

Slavery was a curse, a punishment; but still, God would not have made use of slavery to punish his people, if, theoretically and practically, it is by necessity all which my brother alleges.

It surely did not, in that case, prove a "villany" to Babylon.

They were the best seventy years of their probationary state, when that people held the Jews in captivity.

Now I beg not to be misunderstood nor to have my meaning perverted.