#slavery

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#families #i #more #need #patriarchal

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#concern #exclusively #north #nothing #slavery

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#load #much #north #poor #slavery

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#never #occasion #peace #permanent #permanent peace

Where annual elections end where slavery begins. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#begins #elections #end #slavery #where

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro? ↗

— Stephen Douglas

#controversy #done #far #free #important

Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves. ↗

— Brandon Mull

#slavery #humor

We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black imagination, it is easier for us to construct ourselves as children of Africa, as the sons and daughters of kings and queens, and thereby ignore the Middle Passage and centuries of enforced servitude in the Americas. Although some of us might indeed be the descendants of African royalty, most of us are probably descendants of their subjects, the daughters and sons of African peasants or workers. ↗

— Angela Y. Davis

#denial #history #memory #slavery #imagination

If you believe in GOD you should never fear death. If human fears death then hill be easily enslaved. ↗

— Nadair Desmar

#death

In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#freedom #slavery #food