[A]s it appears to us too clear to admit of either denial or doubt, the Scriptures do sanction slaveholding … to be consistent with the Christian character and profession … [and] to declare it to be a heinous crime, is a direct impeachment of the word of God.
~ Charles Hodge (1836)

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