Andrew and William Symington were both on the committee that produced this paper.

It goes over the Scriptural data regarding slavery, applying it directly to the United States in the author's day. One, of the many, interesting (and sad) notes brought forth in this work asks, "Are you not to blame, also, in tamely submitting to those laws which prohibit you from teaching the slaves to read the Holy Scriptures?" (p. 8).

The footnote here reads, "In North Carolina, to teach a slave to read or write, or to sell or give him any book (the Bible not excepted), is punished with 39 lashes, or imprisonment, if the offender be a free negro; but if a white, then with a fine of 200 dollars."

34 pages.