Let the gentlemen go to Revelation to learn the decree of God – let him go to the Bible and not to the report of the decisions of the courts. I said that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible, authorized, regulated, and recognized from Genesis to Revelation… Slavery existed then in the earliest ages, and […]
Slaves - Slavery Quotes
I determined, at all hazard, to lift up the standard of emancipation in the eyes of the nation, within sight of bunker Hill and in the birth-place of liberty… I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there no cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, […]
It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces.
Better to starve free than be a fat slave.
One of the largest migrations of history was also one of the greatest crimes of history. (slave exportation)
My mother always declared that I was an abolitionist at the age of three. During the Garrison riot in Boston the portrait of George Thompson was hidden under a bed in our house for safe-keeping, and I am told that I used to go and comfort ‘the good man who helped poor slaves’ in his […]
If he’s – the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a – is a noble institution I would – I would strongly reject that assumption – that John Ashcroft is a open-minded, inclusive person.
Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.
There is not one verse in the Bible inhibiting slavery, but many regulating it. It is not then, we conclude, immoral.
Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?
