#slave

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens? ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#husbands #lovelessness #marriage #married-life #matrimony

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one. ↗

— Bao Dai

#country #emperor #enslaved #i #independent

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#i #know #out #slave #things

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#bay #born #could #eastern #free

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#being #first #fugitive #had #i

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#generally #sing #slaves #well #work

What to the Slave is the 4th of July. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#slave

They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#congress #declare #everywhere #go #into

Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves. ↗

— James Thomson

#never #rule #slaves #waves #will

If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#does #free #free state #him #his