Youn Young's Views On Slavery

Young is describing to the reader his disapproval of slavery, which he justifies spiritually by “the invigorating power of Deity” and intellectually, stating it as discernment. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, discernment is defined as the mental product of divinity and insightful perception to make good intellectual and spiritual judgments (discernment #4). Throughout the passage, it can be seen how strongly Young believes that slavery is undermining a civil and religious law. In his writing, originally published in 1829 as a pamphlet, he is addressing Ethiopians or African people, telling them through God they deserve rights that are being denied to them. He goes on to insinuate that all people are descendants from African and God meaning all rights should be inclusive.
Being that Young makes sure to press the reader in acknowledging that we all come from the same place in the scientific and spirited sense, “Of him do I know I derive my right; of him was I on the conception of a mother's womb created free; who then in the shape of man shall dare to rob me of my birthright as bestowed to me in my existence from God? No, I am in myself a man, and as a man will live, or as a man will die; for as I was born free of the will allotted me of the freedom of God, so do I claim and purport to establish an alike universal freedom to every son and daughter descending from the black…”He saying here that it should not be who you are born from and the color you are born with that determines universal rights given by