The tyrant is only the slave turned inside out.
Slaves - Slavery Quotes
They are not free who drag their chains after them.
Some African writers, seeking to maximise the culpability of Europe in the slave trade, minimise the part played by African rulers and traders or explain it as the result of white trickery. Such distortion of history may make the moral case against European imperialism seem sharper, but it does nothing to aid the understanding by […]
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but like slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart. Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the […]
There is a beauteous plant (Sugar Cane) that grows In Western India’s sultry clime, Which makes, alas, the Black man’s woes, And also makes the White man’s crime. (1824)
Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery… is his natural and normal condition. (Vice-President of the Confederacy, referring to the Confederate government: in Augusta, Georgia, March 30, 1861)
No slaves shall keep any arms whatever, nor pass, unless with written orders from his master or employer, or in his company, with arms from one place to another. (A Bill Concerning Slaves)
And ne’er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its waves.
My correspondent thinks with Mr. Jefferson, that Jehovah has no attributes that will harmonize with slavery; and that all men are born free and equal. Now, I say let him throw away his Bible as Mr. Jefferson did his and then they will be fit companions. But never disgrace the Bible by making Mr. Jefferson […]
