Illuminating Anti- and Proslavery quotes from yesteryear to today
There is one strong argument in favor of negro slavery over all other slavery: that is, being unfitted for the mechanic arts, for trade, and all skillful pursuits, leaves those pursuits to be carried on by the whites; and does not bring all industry into disrepute, as in Greece and Rome, where the slaves were …
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We write in the cause of Truth and Humanity, and will not play the advocate for master or for slave. The aversion to negroes, the antipathy of race, is …
The Abolition party hire spies or agents to report every thing in accordance with their own wishes and prejudices. They exaggerate facts, receive tales …
When the abolitionists proclaim “man-stealing” to be a sin, and show me that it is so written down by God, I admit them to be right, and shudder at the idea of such a crime. But when I show them that to hold “bondmen forever” is ordained by God, they deny the Bible, and set …
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Instead of preaching the gospel against this tyranny, rebuke, and wrong, ministers of religion have sought, by all and every means, to throw in the back-ground whatever in the bible could be construed into opposition to slavery, and to bring forward that which they could torture into its support. This I conceive to be the …
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They who disturb abolition meetings with clamour and riot, the tarrers and featherers, and the lynchers, are, after all, the most effectual …
[T]he question was seriously discussed, Whether the slave is more profitable to the owner, if well fed, well clothed, and worked lightly, or if made the most of at once, and exhausted in some eight years. The decision was in favor of the last alternative. That decision will perhaps make many shudder. But, to my …
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The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal, and to hasten the resurrection of the …
[S]uch is the order of providence that a considerable portion of the human race must necessarily move in a humble sphere and be generally at the disposal of their fellow men. ~ Richard Furman (1807)
The native citizen of the slave-holding state displays, specifically, as much sensibility, justice, and stedfastness, in all the domestic and social relations, as the European, of whatever country. ~ Robert Walsh (1819)
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