THE controversy on SLAVERY, in the United States, has been one of an exciting and complicated character. The power to emancipate existing, in fact, in …
Category Archives: 1800s
Should the immediate Abolitionists ever succeed
Should the immediate Abolitionists ever succeed, in bring about such an awful result, let them beware lest they themselves, and not the slave-holder …
Ergo, it is Just
The total abolitionists appear to consider the political expediency of liberating the slaves as a secondary or minor consideration, and contend …
Abolition is a much greater evil
Without inquiring whether it [Slavery] be evil, as most insist, or good, as some contend, unquestionably it is a vast, stupendous, and vital American …
What you might not see
“The negro slaves of the South are the happiest, and, in some sense, the freest people in the world.” ~ George Fitzhugh (1857) Can you imagine someone …
Slavery is the great test question of our age and nation
Slavery is the great test question of our age and nation. It, above all others, enables us to draw the line between the precious and the vile, whether …
What is the foundation of human rights, that is not foundation, for animal rights also?
We hear of the “Rights of Man.” I wish we heard more of them than we do—and could see them observed as well as talked of. But who ever thought of an animal’s rights—the rights of a brute. We hear it spoken of as a man’s duty to be kind to the brutes—but never of …
They know nothing of the bond that unites the master and servant
[The servants] have all behaved extremely well, indeed I cannot utter the least complaint of them, they are deeply interested and very sympathizing with us all. They often speak to me about the war and there was great rejoicing in the kitchen at the news of our recent glorious victory in Virginia [Battle of Bull …
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You will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls
You may believe what I say; for I write only that whereof I know. I was twenty-one years in that cage of obscene birds. I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks. It makes white fathers cruel and sensual; the …
Where slavery exists, virtue and morality are swept as with a flood of corruption
The Americans may boast of the rights of man, the great law of nature, as being the basis of their constitution; they may declaim against tyranny and oppression; yet every man who becomes a slave-holder in Missouri is a tyrant of their creation … . The effects of slavery are truly appalling. Where slavery exists, …
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Quotes on Slavery 
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