What I have said to show that Christians, even in enlightened and Gospelized lands, may be blind to the great wickedness of certain customs and institutions, serves to introduce the remark; that there were probably some customs and institutions, in the time of the Apostles, on which it would have been even worse than lost labor for them to make direct attacks.
"The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus"
American Anti-Slavery Society