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The law of passive obedience : or Christian submission to personal injuries : wherein is shewn, that the several texts of scripture, which command the entire submission of servants or slaves to their masters, cannot authorize the latter to exact and involuntary servitute ...

by: Sharp, Granville, 1735-1813; Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL; John Adams Library (Boston Public Library) BRL

Publication date: 1776

Topics: Christian ethics, Slavery, Slave trade

Publisher: [London : Printed for B. White and E. and C. Dilly]

Collection: johnadamsBPL; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library

Language: English

Printed marginalia

Includes indexes

Errata on p. [103]

Inprint taken from t.p. of of first work, "The just limitation of slavery ..."

John Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Adams Library, in the Custody of the Boston Public Library

ESTC

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Rare Books Collection copy bound with the author's tract: "Law of retribution," 1776

John Adams Library copy bound with the author's tracts: "The just limitation of slavery," and "The law of liberty," 1776

John Adams Library copy transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund. Quincy, Mass., 1894