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<P>Ted,</P>
<P>Do you have any comment on the description of the relationship between slaves and masters as 'based upon mutual affection and confidence,' or the statement that 'there has never been a multi-racial society that existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world.'</P>
<P>These are the statements that continue to leave me slack-jawed. In any context, these statements strike me as praise for the relationship between slaves and their owners. Do you disagree? </P>
<P>If we are to consider them in context, if the pamphlet states that under specific circumstances Christians could be both slaves and slave-owners, then isn't that one more reason to suppose that the statements I've quoted above also support slavery in the antebellum South?</P>
<P>You say that these are descriptions. Do you believe that they are correct descriptions and conclusions about slavery at the time?</P>
<P>Sunil</P>
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