[P]erplexed and agitating subjects which are now common amongst us … should not be forced upon any church as matters for debate at the hazard of alienation and division. ~ Massachusetts Association of Congregational Ministers (1837)
Category Archives: 1800s
In England, or in Europe, abolition is like stars and garters
In England, or in Europe, abolition is like stars and garters, the plaything or bauble, for the most part, of well-meaning theorists; but in this country, a cataclysm, which no rational being can contemplate without dread. None but fanatics like those who, in the English and French revolutions, ruled for a time with terror and …
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Our slavery has not only given existence to millions of slaves
Our slavery has not only given existence to millions of slaves within our own territories, it has given the means of subsistence, and therefore existence, to millions of freemen in our confederates States; enabling them to send forth their swarms to overspread the plains and forests of the West, and appear as the harbingers of …
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The physical condition of the American negro
The physical condition of the American negro is, on the whole, not comparatively alone, but positively good, and he is exempt from those racking anxieties—the exacerbations of despair, to which the English manufacturer and peasant are subject to in the pursuit of their pittance. ~ Robert Walsh (1819)
Of all the systems of iniquity that ever cursed the world
[O]f all the systems of iniquity that ever cursed the world, the slave system is the most abominable [and the only remedy is immediate emancipation.] ~ Hancock, Maine, Baptist Association (1836)
Brethren of the North, be not deceived
Brethren of the North, be not deceived. These sufferings still exist, and despite the efforts of their cruel authors to hush them down, and confine them within the precincts of their own plantations, they will ever and anon, struggle up and reach the ear of humanity. ~ James A. Thome (May, 1834)
No man, who has any sense of the value of liberty
No man, who has any sense of the value of liberty, would think of establishing a condition of society so utterly at war with the rights and …
Slavery does not appear to be consistent with the letter of one article in the Declaration of Independence
[Slavery] does not appear to be consistent with the letter of one article in the Declaration of Independence; but however the expressions in the article may be apparently unlimited, it is certain they were designed to be understood in a restricted sense: For it cannot be conceived that they were designed to declare that children, …
They come over my memory like gory spectres
As I left my native state on account of slavery, and deserted the home of my fathers to escape the sound of the lash and the shrieks of tortured victims, I would gladly bury in oblivion the recollection of those scenes with which I have been familiar; but this may not, cannot be; they come …
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I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice
I am aware, that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as …
Quotes on Slavery 
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