#slaves

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

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

— Sarah Vowell

#abraham lincoln #bought #freed #lincoln #lodge

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#banish #domestic #general #independence #kind

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. ↗

— George Washington

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John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#insurrection #john #john brown #murder #slaves

Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor. ↗

— John Woolman

#certainty #continent #cries #ears #favor

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

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