ation of Sentiments, the author also demands an end to slavery because it goes against legal law. However, he declares that moral law is also being violated because slavery is against divine law, social contract law, and natural law. In a very crafty argument for his point of view, Toombs compares those fighting slavery’s oppression to the oppressed founding fathers of the country itself. Carrying this strategy one step further, He juxtaposes the two events and demonstrates that even though blacks suffer greater atrocities at the hands of their oppressors than ever did the founding fathers, their means of gaining of delivering themselves from bondage are based on spirituality and nonviolent methods. Slavery is not only against US law, but to Toombs (47) it is against and even higher law, “That all those laws which are now in force, admitting the right of slavery, are therefore before God utterly null and void; being an audacious usurpation of the Divine prerogative, a daring infringement on the law of nature, a base overthrow of the very foundation of the social compact, a complete extinction of all the relations, endearments and obligations of mankind, and a presumptuous transgression of all the holy commandments-and that therefore they ought to be
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