If the slavery in which we hold the blacks is wrong, it is a very great and public sin, and, therefore, a sin which God is now testifying against in the calamities he has brought upon us; consequently, must be reformed before we can reasonably expect deliverance, or even sincerely to ask for it.

Samuel Hopkins

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And if there were any such, they have never been condemned to slavery by any who are proper judges, or had any authority to act in the affair.

— Samuel Hopkins

However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

— Samuel Hopkins

These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.

— Samuel Hopkins

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In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.

— Samuel Hopkins

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If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

— Samuel Hopkins

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