If slavery is not distinctly Western, what is? The movement to end slavery! Abolition is an exclusively Western institution. The historian J.M. Roberts writes, “No civilization once dependent on slavery has ever been able to eradicate it, except the Western.”… Never in the history of the world, outside of the West, has a group of […]
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You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free
Ann Simons Ball was near equal to her husband in plantation management and evidently had a military style, which left her with the family nickname “Captain Nancy.”… When John Jr. was out of town, Ann wrote her husband to report that she had personally whipped her laundress, Betty, for not cleaning the bath towels properly.
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There […]
John Ball and his kin were customers of the Work House, a city-run institution for the imprisonment and torture of Charleston’s slaves… The Work House employed civil servants who whipped black people (in soundproof rooms that muffled screams) at the request of their owners or of the police, at twenty-five cents per flogging… Angelina Grimke […]
Let us learn our lessons. Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on that strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master […]
Habitual, time-hardened slavery may not appear to be a form of violence, while a movement which is directed to the abolition of slavery may appear to be violence.
If that corruption of a slave were not merely unpunished but approved by so great authority (as yours), no walls, no laws, no rights would protect our safety. For when our very own, within the household, can with impunity fly away and fight against us, there is slavery in mastery and mastery in slavery.
Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of women in our society was, in many respects, comparable to that of blacks under the pre-Civil War slave codes.
