LESSON I.—Extracts from Bower, 256; the Treuga Dei, 257, 258; Bishop
England quoted on the action and records of the Church, 259, 260.
LESSON II.—Establishment of Christianity by law, by Constantine, and the
rise of Mohammedanism, 261, 262; the schism of the Greek Church,
263, 264.
LESSON III.—Nature swarming with life, and life merging in distress and
death, 264, 265; sin the cause of slavery, and the latter as a
protection, 266, 267; slavery in China, 269.
LESSON IV.—Liberty of less value than life, 270; the Divine grant to
hold slaves, 271.
LESSON V.—Early church acts and documents approving and providing for
slavery, 272; the canons and the constitutions of the apostles, 272
to 274; constitution of Antoninus Pius respecting cruelty to slaves,
275; canons of the Council of Nice and the first appearance of
abolitionism in the world, 276, 277; St. Basil’s canonical writings,
278.
LESSON VI.—The invasion of Attila and the Pontiff Leo’s successful
intercession, 279, 280; Nero’s African slaves, and the white slaves
of the Roman Empire, 281.
LESSON VII.—Church rescripts for the freedom of slaves, and St.
Augustin’s mode of manumission in Africa, 282, 283; Pope Leo’s
letters, forbidding slaves to enter the priesthood, and protecting
the rights of masters, 284, 285; barbarian cruelty to slaves
ameliorated by Christianity, 286, 287; canons of the Council of
Agdle on slavery, 288; modes of becoming slaves, 289, 290.
LESSON VIII.—Muratori on the manumission of slaves in Rome, 291;
colonial and conditional slaves, 292; arming of slaves in defence of
Rome and the glutting of the slave-markets of the world, 293; canons
of the Fourth Council of Orleans, 294, 295; ditto Fifth Council of
Orleans, 296 to 299.
LESSON IX.—Bishop England’s account of slavery in England and Ireland in
remote ages, 299, 300; Pope Pelagius and the canons of the Third
Councils of Paris and Braga, 301, 302; articles of the Third Council
of Toledo, 302, 303.
LESSON X.—The venerable Bede’s account of the slave-trade of England,
A.D. 577, 304 to 306; Pope Gregory’s purchase of British youth, 306,
307; Gregory’s pastoral admonitions and epistles, 308 to 311.
LESSON XI.—Constantine’s edict that none but Christians could hold
slaves, 212, 213; Gregory’s letter to the Præfect of Sicily, 313 to
315; canons of the Fourth Councils of Orleans and Macon, 315, 316;
Gregory to the Bishop of Luna, and the laws of the empire on
slavery, 317, 318.
LESSON XII.—Gregory to the Bishop of Naples, 319, 320; the same to the
Bishop of Catania, 321.
LESSON XIII.—Justinian’s law to protect debtors against slavery, 323;
Gregory’s letters about a Syrian deeply in debt, 322; his letter of
emancipation to Montana and Thomas, 324, 325; Justinian’s law of
marriage between slaves and persons on different estates, 327, 328;
Gregory’s letter on the same subject, 329; his letter to the Bishop
of Syracuse on the same, 330, 331.
LESSON XIV.—Gregory’s deed of gift conveying the slave boy Acorimus to
Theodore the counsellor, 331, 332; his letter about a slave to the
Proctor Bonitus, 333: his document to reclaim runaway slaves, 333,
334; his various letters concerning slaves and the purchase of
Barbary slaves, 334 to 336.
LESSON XV.—Canons of the Councils of Toledo and Saragossa, 336 to 339;
laws of Ina, king of the West Saxons, and the judgments of Withred,
340 to 343.
LESSON XVI.—The canons of Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury, King
Pepin, Council of Bavaria, Pope Adrian and Charlemagne, 343 to 349;
canon of the Council of Frankfort, 349, 350.
LESSON XVII.—Laws of Charlemagne on slavery, 350 to 353; canons of the
Council of Aix-la-Chapelle, 353; capitulary of the Emperor
Lotharius, 353 to 355.
LESSON XVIII.—Unconnected facts bearing on ancient slavery; prostitutes
made slaves; Sclavonian bondage; persecution of the Knights
Templars, 355 to 360.
LESSON XIX.—Derivation of the word _war_; Divine authority for wars, 361
to 365; the church claiming the right to declare offensive war under
two circumstances, 365; bull of Pope Gregory XI. against the
Florentines, 366, 367; Papal bulls against the Venitians and Henry
VIII. of England, 367 to 369; the American colonies at New Haven
decreeing the Indian tribes to slavery, 369, 370.
LESSON XX.—Ancient piracy and pirates, 370, 371; rise of the Vandals,
Goths, Huns, and Tartars, 372; the Northmen, 373 to 379.
LESSON XXI.—Condition of slavery in Europe, 379 to 381.
LESSON XXII.—Origin of the Sclavonians, 381; the descent of the Arabs
and Moors, 383, 384.
LESSON XXIII.—Africans generally slaves in their native country, 384;
African slavery to the Shemitic races foretold by prophecy, 385,
386; sketch of the life, doctrines, and conquests of Mohammed and
his successors, 386 to 390.
LESSON XXIV.—Slavery introduced into the world as a mercy in favour of
life, 390; duty and interest combine to incite the master to promote
religion and good morals in the slave, 391; slavery commanded by
reason and the laws of nature, 392.