SUGGESTIONS

AS TO THE

SPIRITUAL PHILOSOPHY OF AFRICAN SLAVERY

BY 

WM.  H.  HOLCOMBE, M.D.

 



This pamphlet consists of three separate but related essays:


Dr. William Holcombe
This is, perhaps, the most unusual set of documents I have included on this website.  Dr. Holcombe was apparently an adherent of the 18th Century Swedish theologian,  Emanuel Swedenborg (1688--1772), whose ideas and doctrines are not much in vogue today.  (A friend, who studied Swedenborg in seminary, characterized them to me as "weird.")

Ironically, Swedenborg himself was opposed to slavery.  In spite of this, Holcombe uses Swedenborg's concepts to construct, in these three essays, a thelogical justification for African slavery.  A second essay by Holcombe, which does not appear to be based on Swedenborg's theology, is also on this website.





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Date added to website:  June 28, 2024

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