#slaves

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

— James Thomson

#never #rule #slaves #waves #will

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#abraham lincoln #bought #freed #lincoln #lodge

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#between #commerce #disinterested #equals #friendship

The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#bonds #brethren #case #denial #despair

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#bound #class #everywhere #laborers #miserable

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

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#been #colonial #cut #had #importation

The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#had #issue #jobs #just #slaves

These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty. ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

#appear #cannot #consideration #done #far

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

— Stephen Ambrose

#created #did #equal #jefferson #owned

Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#blood #confederacy #fight #give #large