Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.
Slaves - Slavery Quotes
The admission of slaves into the representation, when fairly explained, comes to this: that the inhabitant of Georgia and South Carolina who goes to the coast of Africa and, in defiance of the most sacred laws of humanity, tears away his fellow creatures from their dearest connections and damns them to the most cruel bondage, […]
Slavery holds few men fast; the greatest number hold fast their slavery.
I draw my warrant from the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to hold the slave in bondage.
Mr. Waters prevailed with the chaser and finally convinced him not to let his hounds bite Lucy. When they approached Grandma Lucy, she leaned on her hoe and explained that she was not running away but that Mrs. Burse mistreated her so she only went to her work without breakfast. This chaser had trained his […]
You think, I suppose, that it is now in order for me to cite some examples of great men. No, I shall cite rather the case of a boy. The story of the Spartan lad has been preserved: taken captive while still a stripling, he kept crying in his Doric dialect, “I will not be […]
Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
I freed th’ slave, Hennesy, but faith, I think ’twas like turnin’ him out iv th’ pa-antry into th’ cellar. You can’t do ennythin’ more f’r him than make him free. Ye can’t, Hennessy, only when ye tell ’em they’re free, they kno-ow we’re only stringin. them.
The whole Bible was written by slave owners, and for slave owners. There is no hint of criticism of slavery anywhere in that book. Jesus made no objection to mistreatment of slaves. He indicated that selling of debtors into slavery would be continued his forthcoming kingdom of heaven as well as masters having the right […]
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
