The most important difference between these early American families and our own is that early families constituted economic units ...in which all members, from young children on up, played important productive roles within the household. The prosperity of the whole family depended on how well husband, wife, and children could manage and cultivate the land. Children were essential to this family enterprise from age six or so until their twenties, when they left home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dost thou ask what I mean by emancipation?... 1. It is "to reject with indignation, the wile and guilty phantasy, that man can hol...d property in man." 2. To pay the laborer his hire, for he is worthy of it. 3. No longer to deny him the right of marriage, but to "let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband," as saith the apostle. 4. To let parents have their own children, for they are the gift of the Lord to them, and no one else has any right to them. 5. No longer to withhold the advantages of education and the privilege of reading the bible. 6. To put the slave under the protection of equitable laws. Now, why should not all this be done immediately? Which of these things is to be done next year, and which the year after? and so on. Our immediate emancipation means, doing justice and loving mercy to-day--and this is what we call upon every slaveholder to do. I have seen too much of slavery to be a gradualist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Is it not ironic, oh my husband? Your wife an adulteress. Your mother an adulteress. Your uncle an adulterer. Your friend an adult...erer. Do you not find that amusing, dear Nicholas?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I, his wife, rested and was warmed in the sunlight of his loyal love, and glorious fame, and now, even though his beautiful lif...e has gone out, it is as when some far off planet disappears from the heavens, the light of his great fame still falls upon and warms me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... a business career for a woman and her need for a woman's life as wife and mother, are not enemies at all, unless we make them ...so, but may be the closest and most co-operative friends and supporter of each other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not have authority over hi...s own body, but the wife does.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, s...he commits adultery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband ...is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Savior. Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »