#slave

All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished. ↗

— George Grey

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Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

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Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end. ↗

— Helen Hayes

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Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand. ↗

— Vernon Howard

#understand #whatever

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#slavery #time

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

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Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

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A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

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