manstealer

While Mr. Brown would most gladly have accepted manumission papers, relieving him from all future claim of the slaveholder, and thereby making his freedom more secure, he yet felt that he could not conscientiously purchase his liberty, because, by so doing, he would be putting money into the pockets of the manstealer which did not justly belong to him.

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life 1953

And yet this and more must be done to get rid of the hated negro, who has been born in that State, or has fled to it for protection from the manstealer.

Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West Austin Steward

Why, then, does he fly from St. Paul's opinion of the slaveholder to what he has said of the manstealer and the murderer?

Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott

Christian disciple, fulfilling in righteousness and love a Christian duty, then slavery is right; if slavery is wrong, then every slave-holder is a manstealer, and should be excommunicated as such without asking any further questions.

A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897

Again, the Talmud decides that, if a man have bought a slave who turns out to be a thief or a kubiustis, -- which has here been erroneously explained to mean a ` manstealer, '-- he has no redress.

The Gaming Table : Its Votaries and Victims : Vol. 2 1870

Then followed that illogical confusion of ideas studiously fostered by zealots at either extreme: If the slave-holder may be in some circumstances a faithful Christian disciple, fulfilling in righteousness and love a Christian duty, then slavery is right; if slavery is wrong, then every slave-holder is a manstealer, and should be excommunicated as such without asking any further questions.

A History of American Christianity Leonard Woolsey Bacon 1868

Page 176 that State, or has fled to it for protection from the manstealer.

Twenty-two years a slave, and forty years a freeman--, 1793-1860 1857

That manstealer who stole me trampled on my dearest rights.

Anthony Burns : a history, 1856

And yet this and more must be done to get rid of the hated negro, who has been born in that State, or has fled to it for protection from the manstealer.

Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Steward, Austin, 1794-1860 1856

"a manstealer," merely because he claims of the slave that which God himself commands the slave to render.

Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott