And so all the black men now in our plantations, who are by unjust force deprived of their liberty, and held in slavery, as they have none upon earth to appeal to, may lawfully repel that force with force, and to recover their liberty, destroy their oppressors: and not only so, but it is the …
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But that many civilized, nay, christianized people should approve
THAT some desperate wretches should be willing to steal and enslave men by violence and murder for gain, is rather lamentable than strange. But that many civilized, nay, christianized people should approve, and be concerned in the savage practice, is surprising; and still persist, though it has been so often proved contrary to the light …
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A brother's soul you find
The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives. If mind, as ancient sages taught, A never dying flame, Still shifts thro’ matter’s varying forms, In every form the same, Beware, lest in the worm you crush A brother’s soul you find; …
The regulations proposed by this writer, in the defence of slavery, may be considered as so many proofs of the assertions contained in my own work
The Apology for Negroe Slavery is almost too despicable a composition to merit a reply. I have only therefore to observe, (as is frequently the case in …
I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, For how could we do without sugar and rum?
I own I am shock’d at the purchase of slaves, And fear those who buy them and sell them are knaves; What I hear of their hardships, their tortures, and groans, Is almost enough to draw pity from stones. I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, For how could we do without sugar …
This land of light, humanity, and christian knowledge
It is evident beyond all controversy, that the removal of the Africans from the state of brutality, wretchedness, and misery in which they are at home so deeply involved, to this land of light, humanity, and christian knowledge, is to them so great a blessing. ~ Theodore Parsons (1773)
A Negro may be said to have fewer cares
A Negro may be said to have fewer cares, and less reason to be anxious about tomorrow, than any other individual of our species … . They may be pronounced happier than the common people of many of the arbitrary governments in Europe. ~ Richard Nisbet (1773)
It is their fortune to fall into the hands of rational and benevolent owners
[Their removal was] a species of dispensation of Providence in their favour, to bring them to a better state of civilization than they could attain to in their domestic residence; and such it must undoubtedly prove in a very high degree, when it is their fortune to fall into the hands of rational and benevolent …
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A FURTHER scriptural evidence
A FURTHER scriptural evidence, that the conduct of Joseph in purchasing so many millions of his fellow-creatures, and reducing them to the conditions of Slaves, met the entire approbation of God, and was therefore perfectly consonant to the sacred laws of Nature, is that remarkable declaration of the Word of God, registered in the First …
Rescuing many millions of Africans
[The Slave Trade is a] generous disinterested exertion of benevolence and philanthropy, which has been the principal means of heaping wealth and honours on the Europeans and Americans, and rescuing many millions of Africans, as brands from the fire, and even compelling them to the enjoyment of a more refined state of happiness, than the …
Quotes on Slavery 
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