I will see whether your confidence in divine revelation is sound, for nothing at the present day has overthrown the faith of many like the manifest teachings of the Bible with regard to slavery.

You have felt that the Hebrew code is better than ours, so far as it relates to slaves who were Hebrews.

As to the slaves from the heathen, we infer that they met 'with rigor,' or at least were liable to it; for God continually enjoins it upon the Hebrews that they shall not use rigor with their brethren.
"Now let me mention some things which will try your faith in revelation, if you are an abolitionist.
"The Hebrews were allowed to sell their servants to other people.
"Thus they traded in flesh and blood.

This was prohibited in the case of a Hebrew maid-servant, whom a man had bought and had made her his concubine.

If she did not please him, it was said that--'to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power.' The inference is that they sold their Gentile slaves, if they pleased, 'to a strange nation.' Again.