Contents.

PREFACE.

LECTURE I. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ON THE SUBJECT OF AFRICAN SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES.

LECTURE II. THE ABSTRACT PRINCIPLE OF THE INSTITUTION OF DOMESTIC SLAVERY.

LECTURE III. OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED.

LECTURE IV. THE QUESTION OF RIGHTS DISCUSSED.

LECTURE V. THE DOCTRINES OF RIGHTS APPLIED TO GOVERNMENT.

LECTURE VI. THE ABSTRACT PRINCIPLE OF SLAVERY DISCUSSED ON

LECTURE VII. THE INSTITUTION OF DOMESTIC SLAVERY.

LECTURE VIII. DOMESTIC SLAVERY, AS A SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT FOR

LECTURE IX. THE NECESSITY FOR THE INSTITUTION OF DOMESTIC SLAVERY EXEMPLIFIED BY FACTS.

LECTURE X. EMANCIPATION DOCTRINES DISCUSSED.

LECTURE XI. TEACHING THE SLAVES TO READ AND WRITE.

LECTURE XII. THE CONSERVATIVE INFLUENCE OF THE AFRICAN POPULATION OF THE SOUTH.

LECTURE XIII. THE DUTY OF MASTERS TO SLAVES.

AS EXHIBITED IN THE
INSTITUTION OF DOMESTIC SLAVERY
IN THE
UNITED STATES:
WITH THE
Duties of Masters to Slaves.

BY
WILLIAM A. SMITH, D.D.,
PRESIDENT OF RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE, AND PROFESSOR OF MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL PHILOSOPHY.

EDITED BY THOMAS O. SUMMERS, D.D.

Nashville, Tenn.:
STEVENSON AND EVANS.
1856.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by
WILLIAM A. SMITH,
In the Office of the Clerk of the District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.

STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY A. A. STITT,
SOUTHERN METHODIST PUBLISHING HOUSE, NASHVILLE, TENN.