But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.
From Jupiter Hammon
You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.
There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.
Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.
If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.
If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.
We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.
Good servants frequently make good masters.
Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.
The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.
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