a slave-dealer, kidnapper, man-stealer
a) of one who unjustly reduces free men to slavery
b) of one who steals the slaves of others and sells them
It's a condemnation of unjust actions and theft, not a condemnation of slavery.
================================================= In Vine's entry for andrapodistes he quotes Moulton and Milligan:
"andrapodon was never an ordinary word for slave; it was too brutally obvious a reminder of the principle which made quadruped and human chattels differ only in the number of their legs"
Sounds like andrapodon, the Greek root of "menstealers", is a concept quite in harmony with Roger Taney and the slavery fanatics. And this word, the word that comes closest to the American South's concept of slavery, is never used in those passages that people use to justify Southern slavery. I don't see any Biblical justifcation for the South's practice of slavery.
Slavery fanactics, you must mean the yankees who bought them in Africa. Millions of yankees made profits by venturing capital in the trade. They were so fanatic about slavery they sailed the oceans to procur their human cargo, and lusted so much after profits they brutalized them in holds barely large enough for them to sit upright, starving many, and tossing hundreds of thousands overboard as it suited them. Entire cargoes of slaves were tossed overboard, still in chains to drown or be eaten by sharks to prevent the yankees from being arrested for slave trading after 1808.
Post your proof of your slur against the Chief Justice, otherwise retract it. The justice defended Rev. Gruber against charges of inciting a slave rebellion, as well as freeing the slaves he inherited, providing for them until their deaths in old-age.